different between abhorrence vs disrelish

English

Etymology

abhor +? -ence

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?b?h??.n?s/, /?b?h??.n?ts/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?b?h??.n?s/, /?b?h??.n?ts/, /?b?h??.n?s/, /?b?h??.n?ts/

Noun

abhorrence (countable and uncountable, plural abhorrences)

1. Extreme aversion or detestation; the feeling of utter dislike or loathing. [Mid 17^th century.]
2. (obsolete, historical) An expression of abhorrence, in particular any of the parliamentary addresses dictated towards Charles II. [Late 17^th century.]
3. A person or thing that is loathsome; a detested thing. [Mid 18^th century.]

Synonyms

• abhorrition

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English

Etymology

From dis- +? relish.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s???l??/

Noun

disrelish (uncountable)

1. A lack of relish: distaste
   • The only reason he did not rise in the Church, we are told, was the envy of others, and a disrelish entertained of him

   • 1791, Edmund Burke, Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs

     Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.

   • 1819, John Keats, Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene II, verses 40-42

     […] that those eyes may glow

     With wooing light upon me, ere the Morn

     Peers with disrelish, grey, barren, and cold.

   • 1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 685:

     They heated up tinned food in a saucepan of hot water and ate it with sadness and disrelish, under the belief that they were economising.

2. Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.

Verb

disrelish (third-person singular simple present disrelishes, present participle disrelishing, simple past and past participle disrelished)

1. (transitive) To have no taste for; to reject as distasteful.
   • September 1, 1733, Alexander Pope, letter to Jonathan Swift

     Everybody is so concerned for the public, that all private enjoyments are lost or disrelished

2. (transitive) To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.