different between disfavour vs repugnance

English

Alternative forms

• disfavor

Etymology

From Middle French desfaveur

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /d?s?fe?v?(?)/

Noun

disfavour (countable and uncountable, plural disfavours) (British spelling)

1. Lack of favour; displeasure.
2. An unkindness; a disobliging act.
3. A state of being out of favour.

Synonyms

• maltreatment
• disfavour (rare, nonstandard)

Antonyms

• favour

Translations

Verb

disfavour (third-person singular simple present disfavours, present participle disfavouring, simple past and past participle disfavoured)

1. (British spelling) To show lack of favour or antipathy towards.

Synonyms

• discriminate
• maltreat

Antonyms

• favour

Translations

References

• disfavour at OneLook Dictionary Search
• disfavour in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

English

Etymology

From Old French repugnance (French répugnance).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???p??n?ns/

Noun

repugnance (countable and uncountable, plural repugnances)

1. Extreme aversion, repulsion.
2. Contradiction, inconsistency, incompatibility, incongruity; an instance of such.
   • 1662, Thomas Salusbury, Galileo's Dialogue on the Two Systems of the World (Dialogue Two)

     Discourses vain, inconsistant, and full of repugnances and contradictions.

See also

• repugnancy