'Repugnance' definitions:
Definition of 'repugnance'
From: WordNet
noun
noun
The relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time [syn: incompatibility, mutual exclusiveness, inconsistency, repugnance]
Definition of 'Repugnance'
From: 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]
Synonyms of 'repugnance'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- abhorrence,
- abominability,
- abomination,
- allergy,
- Anglophobia,
- 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,
- Russophobia,
- 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