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Repulsion synonyms
rĭ-pŭl'shən
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repellence
Alternative form of repellency.
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  1. Alternative form of repellency.
rebuff
An abrupt, blunt refusal of offered advice, help, etc.
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  1. An abrupt, blunt refusal of offered advice, help, etc.
  2. A check or an abrupt setback to progress or action:
  3. A sudden resistance or refusal.
denial
(--- Psychology) An unconscious defense mechanism characterized by refusal to acknowledge painful realities, thoughts, or feelings.
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  1. (--- Psychology) An unconscious defense mechanism characterized by refusal to acknowledge painful realities, thoughts, or feelings.
  2. A refusal to believe or accept (a doctrine, etc.)
  3. (Dated, psychology) A defense mechanism involving a refusal to accept the truth of a phenomenon or prospect.
snub
(Nautical) A sudden checking, as of a rope or cable running out.
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  1. (Nautical) A sudden checking, as of a rope or cable running out.
  2. A deliberate slight or affront.
  3. Scornful, slighting action or treatment; affront
distaste
Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
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  1. Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
  2. A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy.
  3. Dislike or aversion (for)
repugnance
Inconsistency or contradiction
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  1. Inconsistency or contradiction
  2. Extreme dislike or distaste; aversion; antipathy
  3. (Logic) The relationship of contradictory terms; inconsistency.
disgust
A sickening distaste or dislike; deep aversion; repugnance
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  1. A sickening distaste or dislike; deep aversion; repugnance
  2. Profound dislike or annoyance caused by something sickening or offensive.
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    abhorrence
    Something abhorred; something repugnant
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    1. Something abhorred; something repugnant
    2. One that is disgusting, loathsome, or repellent.
    3. A feeling of repugnance or loathing.
    abomination
    An abominating; great hatred and disgust; loathing
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    1. An abominating; great hatred and disgust; loathing
    2. Anything hateful and disgusting
    3. Abhorrence; disgust.
    antipathy
    The object of such dislike
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    1. The object of such dislike
    2. (Obs.) An opposition in character, nature, tendency, etc.
    3. Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
    aversion
    The cause or object of such a feeling:
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    1. The cause or object of such a feeling:
    2. The act or fact of averting:
    3. An intense or definite dislike; antipathy; repugnance
    detestation
    Strong dislike or hatred; abhorrence.
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    1. Strong dislike or hatred; abhorrence.
    2. Intense dislike or hatred; loathing
    3. Hate coupled with disgust; abhorrence.
    hate
    A person or thing hated
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    1. A person or thing hated
    2. A strong feeling of dislike or ill will; hatred
    3. Intense animosity or dislike; hatred.
    hatred
    Strong aversion; intense dislike; hateful regard; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as unpleasant, harmful or evil.
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    1. Strong aversion; intense dislike; hateful regard; an affection of the mind awakened by something regarded as unpleasant, harmful or evil.
    2. Strong dislike or ill will; hate
    3. Intense animosity or hostility.
    horror
    A genre of fiction, films, comic books, etc. characterized by the depiction of frightening events and, variously, ghosts, vampires, monsters, etc.
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    1. A genre of fiction, films, comic books, etc. characterized by the depiction of frightening events and, variously, ghosts, vampires, monsters, etc.
    2. The strong feeling caused by something frightful or shocking; shuddering fear and disgust; terror and repugnance
    3. An intense, painful feeling of repugnance and fear.
    loathing
    Great dislike; abhorrence.
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    1. Great dislike; abhorrence.
    2. Sense of revulsion, distaste, detestation, extreme hatred or dislike.
    3. Intense dislike, disgust, or hatred; abhorrence
    repellence
    Alternative form of repellency.
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    1. Alternative form of repellency.
    repellency
    The ability to repel; the characteristic of repelling.
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    1. The ability to repel; the characteristic of repelling.
    repugnance
    Inconsistency or contradiction
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    1. Inconsistency or contradiction
    2. Extreme dislike or distaste; aversion; antipathy
    3. (Logic) The relationship of contradictory terms; inconsistency.
    repugnancy
    Repugnance.
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    1. Repugnance.
    2. The quality or property of being repugnant.
    revulsion
    Extreme disgust, shock, or repugnance; feeling of great loathing
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    1. Extreme disgust, shock, or repugnance; feeling of great loathing
    2. (Archaic) A withdrawing or turning away from something.
    3. A sudden strong change or reaction in feeling, especially a feeling of violent disgust or loathing.
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    Sentence Examples

    • Benjamin Franklin employed the repulsion of two linen threads, C. F.

    • Boscovich himself, in order to obviate the possibility of two atoms ever being in the same place, asserts that the ultimate force is a repulsion which increases without limit as the distance diminishes without limit, so that two atoms can never coincide.

    • Pierre was seized by a sense of horror and repulsion such as he had experienced when touching some nasty little animal.

    • The next improvement was the invention of simple forms of repulsion electroscope.

    • No other system of atoms can occupy the same region of space at the same time, because before it could do so the mutual action of the atoms would have caused a repulsion between the two systems insuperable by any force which we can command.

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