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Repugnance vs Repugnancy - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between repugnance and repugnancy

is that repugnance is extreme aversion, repulsion while repugnancy is the quality or property of being repugnant.

repugnance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • extreme aversion, repulsion
  • contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.
  • *1662 , Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)
  • *:Discourses vain, inconsistant, and full of repugnances and contradictions.

    • repugnancy

    English

    Noun

  • The quality or property of being repugnant.
    • Let the foes quietly cut their throats, / Without repugnancy . — Shakespeare.