Repugnance

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Repugnance \Re*pug"nance\ (-nans), Repugnancy \Re*pug"nan*cy\
     (-nan-s?), n. [F. r['e]pugnance, L. repugnantia.]
     The state or condition of being repugnant; opposition;
     contrariety; especially, a strong instinctive antagonism;
     aversion; reluctance; unwillingness, as of mind, passions,
     principles, qualities, and the like.


     [1913 Webster]
  
           That which causes us to lose most of our time is the
           repugnance which we naturally have to labor. --Dryden.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Let the foes quietly cut their throats,
           Without repugnancy.                      --Shak.
     [1913 Webster]
  
     Syn: Aversion; reluctance; unwillingness; dislike; antipathy;
          hatred; hostility; irreconcilableness; contrariety;
          inconsistency. See {Dislike}.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  repugnance
       n 1: intense aversion [syn: {repulsion}, {revulsion}, {horror}]
       2: the relation between propositions that cannot both be true
          at the same time [syn: {incompatibility}, {mutual
          exclusiveness}, {inconsistency}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  199 Moby Thesaurus words for "repugnance":
     Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, abominability, abomination,
     allergy, antagonism, anti-Semitism, antipathy, antithesis,
     argumentation, averseness, aversion, backlash, backwardness,
     bad blood, baseness, beastliness, belligerence, bigotry, clash,
     clashing, cold sweat, collision, competition, conflict,
     confrontation, confutation, contemptibility, contention,
     contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition,
     contrariety, contrariness, contrast, controversy, counteraction,
     counterposition, counterworking, crankiness, creeping flesh,
     cross-purposes, crotchetiness, crudeness, cursoriness,
     despicability, despicableness, despitefulness, detestation,
     difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, discord,
     discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, disgust, disgustingness,
     disharmony, disinclination, dislike, disobedience, disparity,
     disrelish, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissonance, distaste,
     disunion, disunity, divergence, diversity, emetic, enmity,
     execration, faction, fetidness, foot-dragging, foulness,
     fractiousness, friction, fulsomeness, grossness, grudging consent,
     grudgingness, harshness, hate, hatefulness, hatred, heinousness,
     horror, hostility, ignobility, inaccordance, inconsistency,
     indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, inequality,
     inimicalness, interference, intractableness, jarring, kick,
     lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, loathing, loathsomeness,
     malevolence, malice, malignity, misandry, misanthropy, misogyny,
     mortal horror, mutinousness, nastiness, nausea, nauseant,
     nauseousness, negation, negativeness, noisomeness, nolition,
     nonconformity, noncooperation, noxiousness, objectionability,
     objectionableness, obnoxiousness, obscenity, obstinacy, odiousness,
     odium, offensiveness, oppositeness, opposition, opposure,
     oppugnance, oppugnancy, overripeness, perfunctoriness,
     perverseness, perversity, polarity, putridity, putridness,
     quarrelsomeness, race hatred, racism, rancidity, rancidness,
     rankness, reaction, rebarbativeness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy,
     recoil, refractoriness, refusal, reluctance, renitence, renitency,
     repellence, repellency, repercussion, repulsion, repulsiveness,
     resistance, revolt, rivalry, rottenness, showdown, shuddering,
     sickener, slowness, spite, spitefulness, stubbornness, sulk,
     sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, swimming upstream, uncooperativeness,
     unenthusiasm, unharmoniousness, unspeakableness, unwillingness,
     variance, vials of hate, vials of wrath, vileness, vying,
     xenophobia