repugnance

noun

Etymology: From Middle English repugnance, repugnaunce, from Old French repugnance, repugnaunce (French répugnance) and its etymon Latin repugnantia. Doublet of repugnancy.

1. Extreme aversion, repulsion.

   “moral repugnance”

   “sense of repugnance”

2. Contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.

   “[T]o make a falſe poſition paſſe for true, and to perſwade the belief thereof, there cannot be any thing produced but fallacies, Sophiſms, Paralogiſmes, Equivocations, and Diſcourſes vain, inconſiſtant, and full of repugnances and contradictions.”