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Trepidation vs Disgust - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between trepidation and disgust

is that trepidation is a fearful state; a state of hesitation or concern while disgust is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.

As a verb disgust is

to cause an intense dislike for something.

trepidation

English

Noun

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  • A fearful state; a state of hesitation or concern.
    • I decided, with considerable trepidation , to let him drive my car without me.
  • * 1929 , , Chapter VII, Section vi
    • She opened the drawing-room door in trepidation . Would she find Esther drowned with her head in the goldfish bowl, or hanged from the chandelier by her stay-lace?
  • * {{quote-news
    • , year=2011 , date=December 10 , author=Marc Higginson , title=Bolton 1 - 2 Aston Villa , work=BBC Sport citation , page= , passage=The Midlanders will hope the victory will kickstart a campaign that looked to have hit the buffers, but the sense of trepidation enveloping the Reebok Stadium heading into the new year underlines the seriousness of the predicament facing Owen Coyle's men.}}
  • An involuntary trembling, sometimes an effect of paralysis, but usually caused by terror or fear; quaking; quivering.
  • (astronomy, obsolete) A libration of the starry sphere in the Ptolemaic system; a motion ascribed to the firmament, to account for certain small changes in the position of the ecliptic and of the stars.

    • Synonyms

    * (fearful state) agitation, apprehension, consternation, fear, hesitation, worry

    Related terms

    * intrepid * trepid * trepidate * trepidatory * trepidancy * trepidity * trepidly * trepidatious

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    disgust

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause an intense dislike for something.
    • It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
    • It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust . There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.

    Noun

    (wikipedia disgust) (-)
  • An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
    • With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.

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