repugnance

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
21
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈpʌɡnəns/

Definition of repugnance

2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Extreme aversion, repulsion.
    “moral repugnance”
    “sense of repugnance”
    “express repugnance”
    “She felt a deep repugnance toward violence.”
    “He showed open repugnance at the suggestion.”
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noun

  1. (countable, uncountable)Extreme aversion, repulsion.
    “moral repugnance”
    “sense of repugnance”
    “express repugnance”
    “She felt a deep repugnance toward violence.”
    “He showed open repugnance at the suggestion.”
  2. (countable, uncountable)Contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.
    “[T]o make a falſe poſition paſſe for true, and to perſwade the belief thereof, there cannot be any thing produced but fallacies, Sophiſms, Paralogiſmes, Equivocations, and Diſcourſes vain, inconſiſtant, and full of repugnances and contradictions.”

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Etymology

From Middle English repugnance, repugnaunce, from Old French repugnance, repugnaunce (French répugnance) and its etymon Latin repugnantia. Doublet of repugnancy.

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