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noun
- the state of being repugnant.
- strong distaste, aversion, or objection; antipathy.
- contradictoriness or inconsistency.
late 14c., from Old French repugnance “opposition, resistance” (13c.) or directly from Latin repugnantia “incompatibility,” from stem of repugnare “resist, disagree, be incompatible” (see repugnant).