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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Repugnance \Re*pug"nance\ (-nans), Repugnancy \Re*pug"nan*cy\ (-nan-s?), noun [F. r['e]pugnance, L. repugnantia.] The state or condition of being repugnant; opposition; contrariety; especially, a strong instinctive antagonism; aversion; reluctance; unwillingness, as of mind, passions, principles, qualities, and the like.
That which causes us to lose most of our time is the repugnance which we naturally have to labor. --Dryden.
Let the foes quietly cut their throats, Without repugnancy. --Shak.
Syn: Aversion; reluctance; unwillingness; dislike; antipathy; hatred; hostility; irreconcilableness; contrariety; inconsistency. See {Dislike}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
repugnance
noun
1: intense aversion [syn: {repulsion}, {revulsion}, {horror}]
2: the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time [syn: {incompatibility}, {mutual exclusiveness}, {inconsistency}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
199 Moby Thesaurus words for "repugnance": Anglophobia, Russophobia, abhorrence, abominability, abomination, allergy, antagonism, anti-Semitism, antipathy, antithesis, argumentation, averseness, aversion, backlash, backwardness, bad blood, baseness, beastliness, belligerence, bigotry, clash, clashing, cold sweat, collision, competition, conflict, confrontation, confutation, contemptibility, contention, contradiction, contradistinction, contraindication, contraposition, contrariety, contrariness, contrast, controversy, counteraction, counterposition, counterworking, crankiness, creeping flesh, cross-purposes, crotchetiness, crudeness, cursoriness, despicability, despicableness, despitefulness, detestation, difference, disaccord, disaccordance, disagreement, discord, discordance, discordancy, discrepancy, disgust, disgustingness, disharmony, disinclination, dislike, disobedience, disparity, disrelish, dissension, dissent, dissidence, dissonance, distaste, disunion, disunity, divergence, diversity, emetic, enmity, execration, faction, fetidness, foot-dragging, foulness, fractiousness, friction, fulsomeness, grossness, grudging consent, grudgingness, harshness, hate, hatefulness, hatred, heinousness, horror, hostility, ignobility, inaccordance, inconsistency, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, inequality, inimicalness, interference, intractableness, jarring, kick, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, loathing, loathsomeness, malevolence, malice, malignity, misandry, misanthropy, misogyny, mortal horror, mutinousness, nastiness, nausea, nauseant, nauseousness, negation, negativeness, noisomeness, nolition, nonconformity, noncooperation, noxiousness, objectionability, objectionableness, obnoxiousness, obscenity, obstinacy, odiousness, odium, offensiveness, oppositeness, opposition, opposure, oppugnance, oppugnancy, overripeness, perfunctoriness, perverseness, perversity, polarity, putridity, putridness, quarrelsomeness, race hatred, racism, rancidity, rancidness, rankness, reaction, rebarbativeness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recoil, refractoriness, refusal, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repercussion, repulsion, repulsiveness, resistance, revolt, rivalry, rottenness, showdown, shuddering, sickener, slowness, spite, spitefulness, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, swimming upstream, uncooperativeness, unenthusiasm, unharmoniousness, unspeakableness, unwillingness, variance, vials of hate, vials of wrath, vileness, vying, xenophobia
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