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• n  the force by which bodies repel one another
• n  intense aversion
• n  the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand

• But he summoned his talent with words, wrote a long essay declaring that he was filled with "a sense of repulsion against all things criminal, including myself for having become .
• A-brim with fascination-repulsion for the Broadway milieu, Lehman wrote a long story about a columnist and a press agent.
• Public fascination and repulsion over the makeup, costumes and prepubescent swimsuit competitions at times overshadowed the crime of child murder itself.

• repulsive force
• repugnance
• revulsion
• horror
• standoff

• attraction

News & Articles

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• It’s only a little menstrual blood!
  Menstralais a growing art form, but many still express repulsion at the sight of a woman's period on canvas        
  June 26, 2013 - Salon.com

Quotes

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• Juan Carlos in USA Today
  An act of barbaric terrorism has engulfed Spain with profound pain, repulsion and anger,King Juan Carlos said on national television.
• Bernard Kouchner in Business Standard
  I would like to express my indignation and repulsion at the wave of blasts which has plunged the city of Jaipur in grief,French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in a statement released by the Embassy.
• Leo Tolstoy in New York Times
  In "Hadji Murad" Tolstoy writes of a vicious circle of cruelty and the Chechens' resentment of the Russian soldiers: "It was not hatred, for they did not regard those Russian dogs as human beings; but it was such repulsion, disgust and perplexity at...