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revulsion
/ɹɪˈvʌlʃən/
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What does revulsion mean?
noun
- Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.
- A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
- The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
More meanings (2)
noun
- (obsolete) A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.
- (obsolete) A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change of the feelings.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɹɪˈvʌlʃən/
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He had naturally repressed much, and some revulsion might have been expected in him when the occasion for repression was gone.
What seems race-aversion is frequently something else, namely, revulsion aroused by the presence of the strange, the unusual, the uncanny, the not-understood.
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The revulsion felt by good people at any proposed departure from the accepted methods of life is a familiar fact of everyday experience.
I am charmed with the success of your campaign at Leghorn-a few such generals or ministers would give a revulsion to our affairs.
The revulsion from her indignant mood a little earlier, when she had meditated upon compromised honour, forestalment, eclipse by another, was violent and entire.