revulsion

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: re=vul=sion

CIDE DICTIONARY

revulsion, n. [F. révulsion, L. revulsio, fr. revellere, revulsum, to pluck or pull away; pref. re- re- + vellere to pull. Cf. Convulse.].

•  A strong pulling or drawing back; withdrawal.  SSir T. Brovne.  [1913 Webster]
•  A sudden reaction; a sudden and complete change; -- applied to the feelings.  [1913 Webster]

  "A sudden and violent revulsion of feeling, both in the Parliament and the country, followed."  [1913 Webster]
•  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.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

revulsion, n.
1 abhorrence; a sense of loathing.
2 a sudden violent change of feeling.
3 a sudden reaction in taste, fortune, trade, etc.
4 Med. counterirritation; the treatment of one disordered organ etc. by acting upon another.

Etymology

F revulsion or L revulsio (as RE-, vellere vuls- pull)

THESAURUS

revulsion

abhorrence, abomination, about-face, action and reaction, answer, antipathy, automatic reaction, autonomic reaction, aversion, backing, backsliding, bloodless revolution, bouleversement, bounceback, breakdown, breakup, cataclysm, catastrophe, clean slate, clean sweep, computer revolution, convulsion, counterrevolution, debacle, detestation, disenchantment, disgust, echo, ectropion, eversion, execration, flip-flop, hate, hatred, horror, introversion, intussusception, invagination, inversion, lapse, loathing, odium, overthrow, overturn, palace revolution, predictable response, pronation, radical change, reaction, recidivation, recidivism, reclamation, reconversion, reflection, reflex, reflex action, refluence, reflux, regress, regression, rehabilitation, reinstatement, relapse, reply, repugnance, repulsion, respondence, response, restitution, restoration, resupination, retroaction, retrocession, retroflexion, retrogradation, retrogression, retroversion, return, returning, reverberation, reversal, reverse, reversing, reversion, reverting, revolt, revolution, revolutionary war, rise, slipping back, spasm, striking alteration, subversion, supination, sweeping change, tabula rasa, technological revolution, topsy-turviness, topsy-turvydom, total change, transilience, transposal, transposition, turn, turnabout, turning back, turning backwards, turning inside out, turning inward, turning over, unthinking response, upset, violent change

ROGET THESAURUS

revulsion

Reversion

N reversion, return, revulsion, turning point, turn of the tide, status quo ante bellum, calm before a storm, alternation, inversion, recoil, retreat, regression, retrogression, restoration, relapse, recidivism, atavism, vicinism, reverting, regressive, revulsive, reactionary, retrorse, a rebours.

Revolution

N revolution, bouleversement, subversion, break up, destruction, sudden change, radical change, sweeping organic change, change of state, phase change, quantum leap, quantum jump, clean sweep, coup d'etat, counter revolution, jump, leap, plunge, jerk, start, transilience, explosion, spasm, convulsion, throe, revulsion, storm, earthquake, cataclysm, legerdemain, unrecognizable, revolutionary.

Inversion

N inversion, eversion, subversion, reversion, retroversion, introversion, contraposition, contrariety, reversal, turn of the tide, overturn, somersault, somerset, summerset, culbute, revulsion, pirouette, transposition, transposal, anastrophy, metastasis, hyperbaton, anastrophe, hysteron proteron, hypallage, synchysis, tmesis, parenthesis, metathesis, palindrome, pronation and supination, inverted, wrong side out, wrong side up, inside out, upside down, bottom upwards, keel upwards, supine, on one's head, topsy-turvy, sens dessus dessous, inverse, reverse, opposite, top heavy, inversely, hirdy-girdy, heels over head, head over heels.

Recoil

N recoil, reaction, retroaction, revulsion, bounce, rebound, ricochet, repercussion, recalcitration, kick, contrecoup, springing back, elasticity, reflection, reflexion, reflex, reflux, reverberation, rebuff, repulse, return, ducks and drakes, boomerang, spring, reactionist, elastic collision, coefficient of restitution, recoiling, refluent, repercussive, recalcitrant, reactionary, retroactive, on the rebound, on the recoil, for every action there is a reaction, equal in force and opposite in direction.