/ rɪˈvʌlʃn; NAmE / noun
[ U , sing. ] revulsion (at / against / from sth) ( formal ) a strong feeling of disgust or horror
SYN repugnance :
She felt a deep sense of revulsion at the violence.
I started to feel a revulsion against their decadent lifestyle.
Most people viewed the bombings with revulsion .
—see also revolt
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WORD ORIGIN
mid 16th cent. (originally in a medical sense): from French , or from Latin revulsio(n-) , from revuls- torn out, from the verb revellere (from re- back + vellere pull). The current sense dates from the early 19th cent.