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Repulsion vs Revulsion - What's the difference?

repulsion | revulsion |

As nouns the difference between repulsion and revulsion

is that repulsion is the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled while revulsion is abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.

repulsion

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
  • An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
  • (physics) The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.

    • Antonyms

    * attraction

    Related terms

    * repel * repulsive * repellent

    Anagrams

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    revulsion

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror
  • A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
  • (medicine) The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
  • (obsolete) A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
  • * Sir Thomas Browne
    • Revulsions and pullbacks.
  • (obsolete) A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change of the feelings.
  • * Macaulay
    • A sudden and violent revulsion of feeling, both in the Parliament and the country, followed.

    See also

    * revulsive