repugnance
See also: répugnance
English
Etymology
From Old French repugnance (French répugnance).
Noun
repugnance (countable and uncountable, plural repugnances)
- Extreme aversion, repulsion.
- Contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.
- 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)
- Discourses vain, inconsistant, and full of repugnances and contradictions.
- 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)
See also
- repugnancy