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repulsiveness|rɪˈpʌlsɪvnɪs| [f. repulsive a. + -ness.] The state or quality of being repulsive or disagreeable.
1820Hazlitt Lect. Dram. Lit. 179 The repulsiveness of the story is what gives it its critical interest. 1841D'Israeli Amen. Lit. (1867) 116 Printing ancient writers with all their obsolete repulsiveness in orthography and type. 1875Maine Hist. Inst. i. 17 The difficulty of mastering the contents has..been aggravated by the repulsiveness of the form. |