revulsion
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6.3
- noun
- /rɪˈvʌlʃən/
:
repugnancia
- Horror, humiliation, panic, and revulsion were all emotions that crowded into her, and she wanted to flee.
- moral revulsion
- revulsion and disgust
- deep revulsion
But certainly we have a, This is why I say an almost total societal revulsion of fascism.
- But certainly we have a, This is why I say an almost total societal revulsion of fascism.
- And I just, you know, the revulsion of just reading a couple pages of it.
- It would endless and terrifying, his whole being coiled in a rich and passionate revulsion.
- It just, it fills me full of revulsion at professional politics even more than I already always am.
Examples
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I understand the revulsion everyone feels in the face of brutal murder.
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The range of this suffering may vary from mild irritation to deep revulsion, shock, anger, fear, or stress.
Academic text (1998) -
And I just, you know, the revulsion of just reading a couple pages of it.
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Even the memory of it brought back the anger and the revulsion he had felt then.
Fiction book (1993) -
Why do you feel revulsion, a very, very strong emotion about this ideology?
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I'm sure that you, with me, share the absolute horror and total revulsion at what happened in Paris last Friday.
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The atrocities committed by both sides produced an ethical revulsion among certain commentators.
Academic text (2010) -
Ronny felt an instant deep revulsion toward this utterance of his father's.
Fiction book (1997) -
As a result, they underestimated the popular revulsion to the corruption and crony privatization that accompanied the reforms.
Academic text (2011) -
Her face twisted in revulsion when she saw the unsanitary kitchen conditions.
Synonyms
441
2.1
A very strong feeling of fear, shock, or disgust
48
5.2
A strong feeling of hatred and disgust for someone or something
31
6.5
A strong dislike of something or someone
11
8.3
A strong feeling of dislike toward someone or something
3
6.2
A strong feeling of dislike and disgust
3
8.4
A strong feeling of dislike or disgust
2
7.8
A very strong feeling of hate and disgust
1
8.6
A very strong feeling of hate and disgust for someone or something
A strong feeling of disgust or deep dislike
Antonyms
How Disgusted
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Revulsion comes from Latin parts re- ('back') and vuls ('to pull'), so it originally meant a 'pulling back' from something. That is why a revulsion is a strong feeling of disgust, as if you are pulled away from what you hate.