abhorrence

[ ab-hawr-uhns, -hor- ]

noun

1. a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.

   Synonyms: detestation, execration

2. something or someone extremely repugnant or loathsome.

abhorrence

/ əbˈhɒrəns /

noun

1. a feeling of extreme loathing or aversion
2. a person or thing that is loathsome

Other Words From

• self-ab·horrence noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of abhorrence¹

First recorded in 1650–60; abhorr(ent) + -ence

Example Sentences

[They were feeling] humility, self-condemnation, self-abhorrence.

From The Daily Beast

For all his caustic polemics, Kristol had an abhorrence of finding himself in the minority.

From The Daily Beast

He replied that he had no objections, provided she did not encumber the carriage with bandboxes, which were his utter abhorrence.

From Project Gutenberg

We can imagine that, as soon as a printed book ceased to be a great rarity, it became an object of great abhorrence.

From Project Gutenberg

It is almost impossible to conceive the abhorrence in which the cross was held in the early centuries by the Greek and Roman mind.

From Project Gutenberg

It was regarded with a loathing and abhorrence more intense than that in which the felons gibbet is held to-day.

From Project Gutenberg

The principal reason for abhorrence is probably founded upon misapprehension.

From Project Gutenberg