loathings

Intense visceral disgustions

Loathings are feelings of intense disgust or revulsion.

The plural appears when multiple hatreds are enumerated or when the word takes an article: a loathing of injustice, her various loathings and resentments.

More commonly, loathing appears as an uncountable noun without the plural.

hatred

abhorrence

Extreme hatred or disgust

hostility · malice · spite · venom · bitterness · resentment · malevolence · animus · odium · execration

disgust

revulsion

Intense physical disgust

abomination · sickening · revolting · repulsion · horror · yuckiness · queasiness · squeamishness · grossness · foulness

contempt

disdain

Scornful disregard

condescension · dismissiveness · disrespect · disparagement · mockery · belittlement · haughtiness · snobbishness · superciliousness · sniffiness

rejection

spurning

Contemptuously refusing or dismissing

rebuff · repudiation · disavowal · renunciation · cold-shoulder · ostracism · turning-away · dismissal · banishment

Opposites
emotional intensity toward objects/persons

loathingsadorations

Intense loving worship

loves · devotions · passions · infatuations · admirations

interpersonal regard

loathingsaffections

Feelings of tender attachment

loves · adorations · tendernesses · warmths · endearments

approach vs. avoidance

loathingscravings

Intense desires for something

yearnings · longings · desires · hungers · thirsts

Phrases
Family

loathing, self-loathing

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