repugnance
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Definition of repugnance
2 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
noun
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(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
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(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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(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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