English Explanatory Dictionary

repugnancy

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The quality of being repugnant: offensiveness, repulsion.
  2. The quality of being repugnant: (logical) opposition, contradiction, incompatibility.
  3. Resistance, fighting back.

Pronunciation

/ɹɪˈpʌɡnənsi/

Word forms

repugnancy repugnancies

Etymology

From Middle English repugnancie, from Latin repugnantia. By surface analysis, repugnant + -cy. Doublet of repugnance.

Related words

repugnance
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