Repugnance is a strong feeling of disgust. Moral repugnance, feel repugnance, with obvious repugnance.
It is a moral reaction as much as a physical one, which is why it belongs to arguments about ethics. The Latin means fighting back, from the same root as pugnacious, so repugnance is the mind resisting.
1nounrepugnanceA strong feeling of disgust.
“She looked at the rotting meat with repugnance and pushed the plate away.”
repugnance is a disgust.
Latin repugnantia comes from repugnare, to fight back, from re plus pugnare, to fight.
Proto-Indo-European
*pewǵ-
Latin
repugnantia
Old French
repugnance,repugnaunce
Middle English
repugnance,repugnaunce
English, today
repugnance
From Middle English repugnance,repugnaunce, from Old French repugnance,repugnaunce (French répugnance) and its etymon Latin repugnantia. a doublet of repugnancy.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA