repugnancia

See also: repugnância

Portuguese

Noun

repugnancia f (plural repugnancias)

1. Obsolete spelling of repugnância.
   • 1914, David Lloyd George, A Guerra Europea, Harrison and Sons, page 2:

     Não ha homem que com maior reluctancia e maior repugnancia tenha encarado como eu [...] a perspectiva de se ver envolvido em uma grande guerra.

     There is no man in this room who has always regarded the prospect of engaging in a great war with greater reluctance and with greater repugnance that I have done [...].

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin repugnantia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /repuɡˈnanθja/ [re.puɣ̞ˈnãn̟.θja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /repuɡˈnansja/ [re.puɣ̞ˈnãn.sja]
• Rhymes: -anθja
• Rhymes: -ansja
• Syllabification: re‧pug‧nan‧cia

Noun

repugnancia f (plural repugnancias)

1. repugnancy
2. disgust

   Synonyms: asco, desazón, indignidad

Related terms

• repugnante
• repugnar

 

Further reading

• “repugnancia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014