revulsion
ri vuhl shuhn
- n intense aversion
- The immediate response to the cloned sheep Dolly's birth was a revulsion against the idea of using the same technique to clone human beings.
- But when a transcript of that speech was leaked to the press over the weekend, it produced another outpouring of public revulsion.
- Pity and envy are involved; desire and revulsion; fear and sometimes schadenfreude.