repugnance

From Old French repugnance (French répugnance).

• IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpʌɡnəns/

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repugnance (countable and uncountable, plural repugnances)

1. Extreme aversion, repulsion.
2. Contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.
   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)

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

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