What does repugnance mean?
Repugnance means Extreme aversion, repulsion..
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/ɹɪˈpʌɡnəns/ · noun
Extreme aversion, repulsion..
moral repugnance
sense of repugnance
express repugnance
She felt a deep repugnance toward violence.
He showed open repugnance at the suggestion.
[T]o make a falſe poſition paſſe for true, and to perſwade the belief thereof, there cannot be any thing produced but fallacies, Sophiſms, Paralogiſmes, Equivocations, and Diſcourſes vain, inconſiſtant, and full of repugnances and contradictions.
Use repugnance when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Repugnance means Extreme aversion, repulsion..
Common synonyms include revulsion, repulsion, horror.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
moral repugnance
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