The quality or state of being abhorrent; extreme hatred or the capacity to inspire abhorrence in others.
From Latin abhorrentia, using the suffix -cy to denote a state or quality. This is a rarer synonym for abhorrence, emphasizing the intrinsic quality of being hateful rather than the feeling itself.
This is an archaic or rare variant that highlights how English once had many similar words for disgust and hatred—we've since consolidated these into fewer, more common terms, showing how languages naturally simplify over time.
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