different between repulsion vs disrelish

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French répulsion, from Late Latin repulsio, repulsionem, from Latin repulsus.

Noun

repulsion (countable and uncountable, plural repulsions)

1. The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
2. An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
3. (physics) The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.

Antonyms

• attraction

Related terms

• repel
• repulse
• repulsive
• repellent

Derived terms

Translations

Anagrams

• neuropils

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /repyl?sju?/

Noun

repulsion f

1. repulsion

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.