Noun

(uncountable) Intense dread, fright, or fear.

(countable) Specific instance of being intensely terrified.

* 1794 , (William Godwin),

The terrors with which I was seizedwere extreme.

(uncountable) The action or quality of causing dread; terribleness, especially such qualities in narrative fiction.

* 1921', (Edith Birkhead), ''The tale of '''terror : a study of the Gothic romance

(countable) Something or someone that causes such fear.

* 1841 , (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

The terrors of the storm

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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.