Revulsion
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"To name a sensibility, to draw its contours and to recount its history, requires a deep sympathy modified by revulsion." --"Notes on Camp" (1964) by Susan Sontag |
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- Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror
- A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
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Etymology
French révulsion, Latin revulsio, from revuls- ‘torn out’, from the verb revellere (from re- ‘back’ + vellere ‘pull’). revulsion (sense 1) dates from the early 19th century.
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