Difference between Revulsion and Horror

What is the difference between Revulsion and Horror?

Revulsion as a noun is abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror while Horror as a noun is an intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.

Revulsion

Part of speech: noun

Definition: abhorrence, a sense of loathing, intense aversion, repugnance, repulsion, horror A sudden violent feeling of disgust. The treatment of one diseased area by acting elsewhere; counterirritation.

Horror

Part of speech: noun

Definition: An intense painful emotion of fear or repugnance.An intense dislike or aversion; an abhorrence.A literary genre, generally of a gothic character.(The horrors, informal) An intense anxiety or a nervous depression.

Example sentence: You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.'

We hope you now know whether to use Revulsion or Horror in your sentence.

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