repugnancy means the quality of being repugnant: offensiveness, repulsion. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 86 out of 100.
repugnancy is pronounced /ɹɪˈpʌɡnənsi/.
noun
- The quality of being repugnant: offensiveness, repulsion.“[…] howsoever nature dictates, that government is necessary for the safety of the society, yet every singular person, by corruption and selfe-love, hath a naturall aversenesse and repugnancie to submit to any; every man would be a King himselfe […]”
- The quality of being repugnant: (logical) opposition, contradiction, incompatibility.“For if the paralleles be of this nature, that howe muche the nearer we are th’equinoctiall, so muche the greater is the heate: and howe muche the furder remoued from th’equinoctiall, so muche the colder the qualitie of the aire is: there must seme a manifest repugnancie, betwixt Auicenne, & the Geographers.”
- Resistance, fighting back.“Why do fond men expoſe themſelues to Battell,
And not endure all threats? Sleep vpon’t,
And let the Foes quietly cut their Throats
Without repugnancy?”