Scorn vs Revulsion - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between scorn and revulsion

is that scorn is contempt or disdain while revulsion is abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.

As a verb scorn

is to feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.

scorn

English

Verb

(en verb)

To feel or display contempt or disdain for something or somebody; to despise.

* C. J. Smith

We scorn what is in itself contemptible or disgraceful.

To scoff, express contempt.

To reject, turn down

He scorned her romantic advances.

To refuse to do something, as beneath oneself.

She scorned to show weakness.

Synonyms

* See also

Noun

(uncountable) Contempt or disdain.

(countable) A display of disdain; a slight.

* Dryden

Every sullen frown and bitter scorn / But fanned the fuel that too fast did burn.

(countable) An object of disdain, contempt, or derision.

* Bible, Psalms xliv. 13

Thou makest us a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and a derision to them that are round about us.

Usage notes

* Scorn'' is often used in the phrases ''pour scorn on'' and ''heap scorn on .

Quotations

* circa 1605': The cry is still 'They come': our castle's strength / Will laugh a siege to '''scorn — '' * 1967', Rain of tears, real, mist of imagined '''scorn — John Berryman, ''Berryman's Sonnets . New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Synonyms

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Derived terms

* scornful

Anagrams

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.