different between repugnance vs wrath

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

English

Etymology

From Middle English wraththe, wreththe, from Old English wr?þþu (“wrath, fury”), from Proto-West Germanic *wraiþiþu (“wrath, fury”), equivalent to wroth +? -th. Compare Dutch wreedte (“cruelty”), Danish vrede (“anger”), Swedish vrede (“wrath, anger, ire”), Icelandic reiði (“anger”). More at wroth.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???/, /????/
  • Rhymes: -??, -???
  • Homophone: wroth (some speakers)
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æ?/
  • Rhymes: -æ?
• (General New Zealand) IPA^(key): /?æ?/, /???/

Noun

wrath (usually uncountable, plural wraths)

1. (formal or old-fashioned) Great anger.

   Synonyms: fury, ire
2. (rare) Punishment.

Usage notes

• The pronunciation with the vowel /æ/ is regarded as incorrect by many British English speakers.

Derived terms

• grapes of wrath
• wrathful

Related terms

• wroth

Translations

Adjective

wrath (comparative more wrath, superlative most wrath)

1. (rare) Wrathful; wroth; very angry.

Verb

wrath (third-person singular simple present wraths, present participle wrathing, simple past and past participle wrathed)

1. (obsolete) To anger; to enrage.
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Further reading

• “wrath” in the Cambridge English Dictionary, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Anagrams

• Warth, warth