repugnance

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Extreme aversion, repulsion.

   She felt a deep repugnance toward violence.

2. 2
   noun

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

   [T]o make a falſe poſition paſſe for true, and to perſwade the belief thereof, there cannot be any thing produced but fallacies, Sophiſms, Paralogiſmes, Equivocations, and Diſcourſes vain, inconſiſtant, and full of repugnances and contradictions.

3. 3
   noun

   intense aversion

4. 4
   noun

   the relation between propositions that cannot both be true at the same time

From Middle English repugnance, repugnaunce, from Old French repugnance, repugnaunce (French répugnance) and its etymon Latin repugnantia. Doublet of repugnancy.

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