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countable and uncountable, plural repulsions
The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled. examples
An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something. quotations examples
All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
(physics) The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity. examples