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revulsion Definition

re·vul·sion (ri vul′s̸hən)

noun

  1. Rare a withdrawal
  2. a sudden, complete, and violent change of feeling; abrupt, strong reaction in sentiment
  3. extreme disgust, shock, or repugnance; feeling of great loathing

Etymology: < Fr or L; Fr révulsion < L revulsio < revulsus, pp. of revellere, to pluck away < re-, back + vellere, to pull < IE base *wel-, to snatch, seize, injure > OE wol, pestilence, ON valr, the slain on the battlefield

revulsion Related Forms

re·vul′·sive adjective

revulsion Synonyms

revulsion

n.

disgust, distaste, repugnance; see aversion, objection 1. See syn. study at aversion.

revulsion Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • express: At this time, and for many years to come it will be very difficult to express the true revulsion against such attacks.
  • feel: Some of us may well have felt the same sudden revulsion at the first images of the Milan accident some weeks ago.
  • cause: It was the expressions on the faces, frozen at the moment of death, that caused the greatest revulsion.
  • have: We feel good in crowds, we have a revulsion for feeling ' out of place ' .
  • provoke: The opening of the concentration camps at the end of the war provoked a widespread revulsion in the world and within Germany itself.
  • share: The British Methodist Church shares the widespread revulsion at the March 11 th bombings in Madrid, and unequivocally condemns them.

Preposition: at

  • death: Richard considered a career in pediatrics, but his revulsion at the death of some of the premature babies dissuaded him.
  • idea: Most were motivated by " revulsion at the idea of an Arab land being occupied by a non-Arab country " .
  • sight: All this leads to almost universal revulsion at the sight of scurrying legs and scaly tail.
  • act: The country is united in revulsion at these acts.

Adjective modifier

  • widespread: Moreover, the abstract expression of rejected pluralism was a widespread revulsion from the very concept of a private sector.
  • moral: Christ was teaching us to view our own secret sins with the same moral revulsion we feel for wanton acts of public sin.
  • deep: This vicious and cowardly crime has filled us all with horror and deepest revulsion.
  • public: Surely the public revulsion throughout these islands to the Omagh bomb must mark a new beginning in political relations here.
  • same: Some of us may well have felt the same sudden revulsion at the first images of the Milan accident some weeks ago.
  • popular: The Conservatives were kicked out last year in a wave of popular revulsion that has almost no equal in a modern democracy.

Noun used with modifier

  • world: World revulsion at evidence of the Holocaust, which unfolded in 1945, ensured that there were going to be trials for war crimes.
  • surface: There is a lot of beneath the surface revulsion to this going on by those below that level of rank.

Preposition: against

war: The result was a massive wave of revulsion against the war.

Preposition: of

feeling: A sudden revulsion of feeling swept over his mind.