repugnance

Etymology

From Old French repugnance (French répugnance).

noun

  1. Extreme aversion, repulsion.
  2. Contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.
    Discourses vain, inconsistant, and full of repugnances and contradictions. 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)

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