Why this word is great
PERHORRESCE — [Verb] To shudder or feel a growing horror at something. From Latin perhorrēscere, from per- ("thoroughly") + horrēscere ("to shudder, bristle"). Unlike "shudder" (a fleeting physical reaction) or "recoil" (a reflexive withdrawal), "perhorresce" is the slow, creeping dread that settles into the marrow. It is the realization that the stain on the floor is not wine but blood, the mounting revulsion as the implications of a whispered confession unfold, or the way the mind recoils from a truth too terrible to name—the horror not of the sudden, but of the inevitable. Some horrors are not fleeting; they take root.