Definition of "repugnance" in English

noun

1. Extreme aversion, repulsion.

   • She felt a deep repugnance toward violence.
   • He showed open repugnance at the suggestion.
   • moral repugnance
   • sense of repugnance
   • express repugnance

2. Contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.

   • Discourses vain, inconsistant, and full of repugnances and contradictions.