Revulsion vs. Disgust — What's the Difference?

A sudden strong change or reaction in feeling, especially a feeling of violent disgust or loathing.

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.

(Archaic) A withdrawing or turning away from something.

To excite nausea or loathing in; sicken.

(Medicine) The reduction of superficial inflammation in an affected body part, as by topical agents, in order to decrease inflammation in adjacent structures.

To offend the taste or moral sense of; repel.

Abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror.

Profound dislike or annoyance caused by something sickening or offensive.

A sudden violent feeling of disgust.

To cause an intense dislike for something.

(medicine) The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.

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

(obsolete) A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.

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.

(obsolete) A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change of the feelings.

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.

A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.

Strong feelings of dislike

A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change; - applied to the feelings.

Fill with distaste;

The act of turning or diverting any disease from one part of the body to another. It resembles derivation, but is usually applied to a more active form of counter irritation.

Cause aversion in; offend the moral sense of;

Intense aversion