Other forms: abominations
An abomination is something that causes disgust and hatred. An abomination before God, an absolute abomination, call it an abomination.
It is the strongest word of moral disgust English has, and it belongs to scripture and to denunciation. Used lightly it is comic hyperbole — that building is an abomination. In its biblical use it names things declared ritually detestable, and the passages are argued over endlessly. Note abominable, as in the Abominable Snowman; and that the word means literally something to be shunned as an ill omen.
1nounabominationSomething that causes disgust and hatred.
“The judge called the attack on the children an abomination.”
abomination is an object of disgust.
Latin abominatio comes from abominari, to shun as a bad omen — ab plus omen. The word carried the idea of a warning sign long before it meant simple disgust.
Middle English
abominacioun
English, today
abomination
From Middle English abominacioun. From Middle English abominacioun, from Middle French abomination (“horror, disgust”), from Latin abōminātiō (“abomination”) a doublet of abominatio.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA