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REPULSIVENESS
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Dictionary entry overview: What does repulsiveness mean?
• REPULSIVENESS (noun)
The noun REPULSIVENESS has 1 sense:
1. the quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
Familiarity information: REPULSIVENESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The quality of being disgusting to the senses or emotions
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
loathsomeness; lousiness; repulsiveness; sliminess; vileness; wickedness
Context example:
the vileness of his language surprised us
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)
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