Repugnance

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  • noun. Extreme dislike or aversion.
  • noun. The relationship of contradictory terms; inconsistency.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Opposition; conflict; resistance, in a physical sense.
  • noun. Mental opposition or antagonism; positive disinclination (to do or suffer something); in a general sense, aversion.
  • noun. Contradictory opposition; in logic, disagreement; inconsistency; contradiction; the relation of two propositions one of which must be true and the other false; the relation of two characters such that every individual must possess the one and lack the other.
  • noun. Synonyms Hatred, Dislike, etc. (see antipathy), backwardness, disinclination. See list under aversion.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. extreme aversion, repulsion
  • noun. contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • noun. the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time
  • noun. intense aversion
  • Word Usage
    "And now that repugnance is very nearly annihilated how strange it would be to say we forbid you under severe legal restrictions from using this precaution which has been so long, so diffusively, so earnestly and so effectually recommended."
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