Revulsion vs Hostility - What's the difference?
revulsion | hostility | Related terms |
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
(obsolete) A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change of the feelings.
* Macaulay
(uncountable) The state of being hostile.
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(countable) A hostile action, especially a military action. See hostilities for specific plural definition.
Revulsion is a related term of hostility.
As nouns the difference between revulsion and hostility
is that revulsion is abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror while hostility is (uncountable) the state of being hostile.revulsion
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Noun
(en-noun)- Revulsions and pullbacks.
- A sudden and violent revulsion of feeling, both in the Parliament and the country, followed.
See also
* revulsivehostility
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Noun
- There is no hostilitie so excellent, as that which is absolutely Christian.
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London Is Special, but Not That Special," New York Times (retrieved 28 September 2013):
- The polarization of wealth and the polarization of attitudes to diversity are not unrelated. A key reason for popular hostility to immigrants is that to many people, particularly within working-class communities, immigration has become a symbol of unacceptable change.