Repugnance

Definitions: Repugnance

Repugnance

Noun

1. Intense aversion.

2. The relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time.

Date "repugnance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1613. (references)

Synonyms: Repugnance

Synonyms: horror (n), incompatibility (n), inconsistency (n), mutual exclusiveness (n), repulsion (n), revulsion (n). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Contrariety	Noun: contrariety, contrast, foil, antithesis, oppositeness; contradiction; antagonism; (opposition); clashing, repugnance.
Disagreement	Disparity, mismatch, disproportion; dissimilitude, inequality; disproportionateness; Adjective: variance, divergence, repugnance.
Dislike	Repugnance, disgust, queasiness, turn, nausea, loathing; averseness, aversation, aversion; abomination, antipathy, abhorrence, horror; mortal antipathy, rooted antipathy, mortal horror, rooted horror; hatred, detestation; hate; animosity; hydrophobia; canine madness; byssa, xenophobia. sickener; gall and wormwood; (unsavory); shuddering, cold sweat.
Hate	Repugnance; (dislike); misanthropy, demonophobia, gynephobia, negrophobia; odium, unpopularity; detestation, antipathy; object of hatred, object of execration; abomination, aversion, b_te noire; enemy; bitter pill; source of annoyance.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Repugnance

English words defined with "repugnance": Aversely ♦ Gynephobia ♦ off-putting ♦ recalcitrate, Recalcitration, Reluct, Reluctancy, Reluctation. (references)

Domain	Title
Music	The Bowels of Repugnance [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference) (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)
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Author	Quotation
Karl Von Clausewitz	It is waste -- and worse than a waste -- of effort to ignore the element of brutality because of the repugnance it excites.
William Hazlitt	Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain.
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Title	Author	Quote
Emma	Austen, Jane	He must be gone within a few hours, though without feeling any real alarm for his aunt, to lessen his repugnance.
Scarlet Letter	Hawthorne, Nathaniel	At that distance they accordingly stood, fixed there by the centrifugal force of the repugnance which the mystic symbol inspired.
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	The repugnance to animal food is not the effect of experience, but is an instinct.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Repugnance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Repugnance" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	40	54,274

Expression using "repugnance": feel a repugnance to. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "repugnance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		zët (dislike, scunner), neveritës (detestation, loathing, repulsion), neveri (abhorrence, abomination, aversion, contempt, disdain, disgust, disrelish, distaste, execration, gorge, horror, loathing, nausea, odiousness, odium, recoil, repulsion, revolt, scorn), ndot (bedaub, besmirch, bespatter, contaminate, defile, dirty, disgust, foul, grime, pollute, smear, smirch, smudge, soil, splash). (various references)

Arabic		‏كراهية (antipathy, aversion, dislike, disrelish, distaste, hate, hatred, odium), ‏مقت (abhor, abominate, aversion, be detested, detest, detestation, hate, odium), ‏نفور (antipathy, aversion, disaffection, disinclination, dislike, distaste, estrangement, indisposition, offish, recoil, reluctance, repulsion, revulsion, startle), ‏تناقض (ambivalence, antinomy, be on the wane, conflict, contradiction, cross-purposes, discrepancy, inconsistency, opposite, opposition), ‏تعارض (clash, collide, collision, conflict, contradict, disagree, disagreement, discrepancy, fly in the face of, incongruity, interfere, run against smth.), ‏إشمئزاز (abhorrence, horror, loathing, nausea, obsession, pout, qualm, recoil, reluctance, repulsion, revulsion, sway). (various references)

Bulgarian		отвращение (abhorrence, abomination, allergy, antipathy, detestation, disgust, disrelish, distaste, execration, horror, loathing, nausea, odium, phobia, recoil, reluctance, repulsion, revolt, scunner, sickener), несъвместимост (incongruity, negation), антипатия (antipathy, aversion), противоречие (antilogy, clash, conflict, contradiction, contrariety, discrepancy, incongruity). (various references)

Czech		odpor (antipathy, aversion, contradiction, disgust, dislike, distaste, nausea, opposition, protest, reluctance, repulsion, resentment, resistance, revulsion), ošklivost (detestation, disgust, nausea, ugliness), nesrovnatelnost. (various references)

Farsi		مغایرت (Aversion, Contrast, Odds, Variance), مخالفت (Aversion, Defiance, Gainsay, Objection, Opposition, Remonstrance, Resistance), ناسازگاری (Antipathy, Aversion, Conflict, Discord, Incoherence, Incompatibility, Incongruity, Inconsistency, Inconvenience, Intransigeance, Variance), تناقض (Antithesis, Incoherence). (various references)

Finnish		vastenmielisyys (antipathy, aversion, dislike, distaste, repulsiveness). (various references)

French		répugnance (recoil, reluctance, revulsion), aversion. (various references)

German		Widerwille (aversion, disgust, distaste, grudge, reluctancy, repulsion, unwillingness), Abneigung (abhorrence, animosity, antipathy, aversion, disinclination, dislike, distaste, indisposition, objection, reluctance). (various references)

Greek		αποστροφή (abhorrence, abomination, apostrophe, averseness, aversion, detestation, distaste, repulsion). (various references)

Hebrew		שאט � פש (abhorrence, repulsion, revulsion), סלי�"�" (antipathy, aversion, disgust, loathsomeness, revulsion). (various references)

Hungarian		undor (abhorrence, abomination, cloying, disgust, loathing, my gorge rises at it, nausea, rising of the stomach, surfeit), ellentmondás (antagonism, antilogy, caveat, clash, conflict, contradiction, discrepancy, paradox). (various references)

Italian		ripugnanza (abhorrence, aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, loathing, nausea), avversione (abhorrence, antipathy, aversion, detestation, disgust, disinclination, dislike, distaste, loathing, nausea, revolt, revulsion). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		嫌悪 (disgust, hate). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		け�"お (disgust, hate). (various references)

Manx		neuwooiys (discontentment, recalcitrance), meehaitnys (disagreeableness, dislike, displeasure, emptiness, unacceptability, unattractiveness, unenjoyment). (various references)

Pig Latin		epugnanceray

Portuguese		repugnância (abhorrence, aversion, backwardness, disgust, disincline, dislike, disrelish, distaste, loathing, nausea, reluctance, repulsion, revolt, scunner), relutância (difficulty, grudge, reluctance), oposição (appeal, conflict, contradiction, contradistinction, contraposition, contrariety, counteraction, countercheck, hostility, objection, objection to a default judgement, opposition, out, resistance, resistor), incompatibilidade (contradiction, incompatibility, incompatible, incongruity, inconsistency, infertility), aversão (abhorrence, aversion, complex, despite, disgust, disinclination, dislike, disrelish, distaste, grudge, hate, hatred, hors d'oeuvre, impatient, loathing, rancor, rancour, reluctance, repulsion, revolt), antipatia (antipathy, aversion, dislike, disrelish, distaste, hate, hatred). (various references)

Romanian		scârbã (abomination, disgust, fulsomness, gall, recoil, repulsion), oroare (abhorrence, aversion, execration, eyesore, hideousness, horror, recoil, terror), incompatibilitate (conflict, incompatibility, incongruity), greaţã (abhorrence, aversion, disgust, dislike, nausea, nauseousness, queasiness, sickness), dezgust (abhorrence, abomination, aversion, disgust, disrelish, distaste, fulsomness, horror, loathing, weariness), contradicţie (conflict, contradiction, contrariety, gainsaying), aversiune (abhorrence, aversion, detestation of, disrelish, idiosyncrasy, indisposition, loathing, objection, quarrel, recoil, repulsion, revolt), antipatie (antipathy, disinclination, dislike, distaste, enmity, indisposition, quarrel), împotrivire (resistance, stand, stoppage, stopping). (various references)

Russian		отвращение (abhorrence, abomination, abominations, allergy, aversion, disgust, distaste, hatred, loathing, odium, recoil, reluctance, repulsion, revulsion, scunner). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		odvratnost (averse, nausea, odiousness, odium, reluctance, repulsion, revulsion, sordidness, unpleasantness). (various references)

Spanish		repugnancia (antipathy, aversion, disgust, dislike, distaste, loathing, nausea, reluctance, repulsion, revulsion, unwillingness). (various references)

Swedish		motsägelse (antilogy, contradiction, cotradiction, discrepancy, incongruity, inconsistency). (various references)

Turkish		zıtlık (antagonism, antinomy, antipodes, antithesis, contradistinction, contrast, cross-purposes, opposition), tutarsızlık (abruptness, contradictoriness, desultoriness, discrepancy, incoherence, inconsequence, inconsistency, variable), nefret (abhorrence, abomination, animosity, animus, antipathy, aversion, contempt, despite, detestation, disgust, dislike, distaste, down, enmity, execration, hate, hatred, horror, loathing, miso-, odiousness, odium, repulsion), isteksizlik (aversion, disinclination, indisposition, reluctance, unwillingness), iğrenme (abhorrence, abomination, contempt, detestation, disgust, execration, hate, loathing, nausea, repulsion, revulsion), aykırılık (anomaly, contradiction, contradistinction, contrariety, cross-purposes, discrepancy, incongruity, inconsistency, irregularity, solecism), antipati (allergy, antipathy, disaffection, dislike, repulsion, repulsiveness). (various references)

Ukranian		суперечність (antagonism, antilogy, antinomy, collision, conflict, contradiction, contrariety, gainsay), огида (abhorrence, abomination, aversion, hate, hatred, horror, loathing, nausea, odium, repulsion), антипатія (antipathy, aversion, dislike). (various references)

Vietnamese		sự xung khắc (repugnancy), sự mâu thuẫn (clash, conflict, contradiction, inconsistence, inconsistency, repugnancy), sự ghê tởm (abominableness, abomination, distaste, loathing, rankness, repugnancy), sự ghét (aversion, dislike, loathing, odium, repugnancy, repulsion), mối ác cảm sự không hợp nhau (repugnancy). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Middle French	1400-1600	desgoust. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "repugnance": repugnances. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Repugnance" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: repuanance, repugnan, repungance, repungnace, repungnance. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-g-n-n-p-r-u"
	-3 letters: pangene, penance, pugaree, uneager.
	-4 letters: apercu, cangue, canner, careen, cunner, encage, enrage, eupnea, genera, gunner, nuance, pangen, penang, pennae, penner, prance, pugree, punner, recane, repugn, uncage.
	-5 letters: agene, agree, anger, argue, arpen, auger, cager, caner, caper, crane, crape, creep, crepe, eager, eagre, enure, gaper, genre, genua, grace, grape, green, nacre, nance, pacer, pager.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-g-n-n-p-r-u"
	+1 letter: repugnances.
	+2 letters: repugnancies.
	+5 letters: pseudopregnancy.
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