noun
revulsion
A strong feeling of disgust or horror.
The moldy food provokes a recoil of revulsion.
Etymology
Latin revulsio means a tearing or pulling away. Disgust is represented as a forceful emotional recoil from its object.
In context
and then came my revulsion of feeling a single incident changed all my sympathy to loathing
More examples
- She recoiled in revulsion at the cruelty.
- His account of the abuse provoked widespread revulsion.
- A wave of revulsion overcame the onlookers.
Forms
revulsion
Similar words
- disgust
- Disgust is strong aversion; revulsion suggests an especially forceful recoil.
- horror
- Horror often involves fear or shock; revulsion particularly involves repugnance.