Disgust vs. Loathing — What's the Difference?

Disgust (Middle French: desgouster, from Latin gustus, "taste") is an emotional response of rejection or revulsion to something potentially contagious or something considered offensive, distasteful, or unpleasant. In The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals, Charles Darwin wrote that disgust is a sensation that refers to something revolting.

Great dislike; abhorrence.

To excite nausea or loathing in; sicken.

Sense of revulsion, distaste, detestation, extreme hatred or dislike.

To offend the taste or moral sense of; repel.

Present participle of loathe

Profound dislike or annoyance caused by something sickening or offensive.

(obsolete) loath

To cause an intense dislike for something.

Extreme disgust; a feeling of aversion, nausea, abhorrence, or detestation.

An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.

Hate coupled with disgust

To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; - often with at, with, or by.

Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; - said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust.

Strong feelings of dislike

Fill with distaste;

Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of;