revulsion
Americannoun
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a strong feeling of repugnance, distaste, or dislike.
Cruelty fills me with revulsion.
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a sudden and violent change of feeling or response in sentiment, taste, etc.
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the act of drawing something back or away.
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the fact of being so drawn.
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Medicine/Medical. the diminution of morbid action in one part of the body by irritation in another.
noun
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a sudden and unpleasant violent reaction in feeling, esp one of extreme loathing
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the act or an instance of drawing back or recoiling from something
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obsolete the diversion of disease or congestion from one part of the body to another by cupping, counterirritants, etc
Other Word Forms
- revulsionary adjective
Etymology
Origin of revulsion
1535–45; < Latin revulsiōn- (stem of revulsiō ) a tearing away, equivalent to revuls ( us ) (past participle of revellere to tear away, equivalent to re- re- + vellere to pluck) + -iōn- -ion
Example Sentences
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She’s keenly aware that her first two films, “Promising Young Woman” and “Saltburn,” were received with as much shock as they were revulsion.
From Salon
Several ads trafficked in revulsion as an attention-getter, none more so than this one for a body shaver featuring various clumps of removed body hair singing with their little hairy mouths.
From Los Angeles Times
His revulsion was multiplied when he felt something wet on his bare foot and looked down to find that Grief was drooling on him.
From Literature
I was never interested because I couldn’t bring myself to feel anything but revulsion toward him.
From Literature
Another reason is the overall transformation in many Muslim nations, where excesses of radical rule caused widespread revulsion just as a new, more open-minded and globally connected generation grew up.
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