abomination

English

Etymology

Middle English abominacioun, -cion, from Old French abominacion, from Latin abominatio.

Pronunciation

• (RP) IPA: /əbɒmɪˈneɪʃn/
• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

abomination (plural abominations)

1. The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.
2. That which is abominable, shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; very often with religious undertones.
   • Antony, most large in his abominations. Shakespeare, Antony and Cleopatra, III-vi

Synonyms

• detestation
• loathing
• abhorrence
• disgust
• aversion
• loathsomeness
• odiousness

Translations

the feeling of extreme disgust

Bulgarian: отвращение (bg), ненавист (bg) Czech: odpor (cs) m., zhnusení (cs) n. Dutch: afschuw (nl), walging (nl)

Esperanto: abomeno (eo) Russian: отвращение (ru) n. Slovak: hnus (sk) m., odpor (sk) m.

something abominable

Czech: odpornost (cs) f., ohavnost (cs) f. Danish: afskyelighed (da), pestilens (da), vederstyggelighed (da) Dutch: (een) afschuwelijk iets Esperanto: abomeno (eo), abomenaĵo (eo) German: (die) Abscheulichkeit

Portuguese: abominação (pt) f. Russian: гадость (ru) f., мерзость (ru) f. Slovak: ohavnosť f. Spanish: abominación f., maldad f. Sumerian: anzillu

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Vietnamese: sự ghê tởm, sự kinh tởm, sự ghét cay ghét đắng, vật kinh tởm, việc ghê tởm, hành động đáng ghét

References

• abomination in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

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Noun

abomination f. (plural abominations)

1. Something vile and abominable; an abomination.
2. (chiefly religion) Revulsion, abomination, disgust.