Word of the Day:
revulsion
What It Means
Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.
A sudden violent feeling of disgust.
The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.
Revulsion in Context
“The recent financial revulsion has revealed the feeble basis on which credit now stands, […]”
Did You Know?
Partly from Middle French révulsion and partly from Latin revulsiō.
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