revulsion


Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
revulsion/rɪˈvʌlʃn/
noun
  • 1 a sense of disgust and loathing.
  • 2 Medicine, chiefly historical the drawing of disease or blood congestion from one part of the body to another, e.g. by counterirritation.
– derivatives
revulsive adjective & noun.
– origin C16: from Fr., or from L. revulsio(n-), from revuls-, revellere ‘tear out’.
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