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REPULSIVENESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
Example:
the vileness of his language surprised us
Synonyms:
loathsomeness; lousiness; repulsiveness; sliminess; vileness; wickedness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("repulsiveness" is a kind of...):
distastefulness; odiousness; offensiveness (the quality of being offensive)
Derivation:
repulsive (so extremely ugly as to be terrifying)
repulsive (offensive to the mind)
