REPELLENCY Synonyms: 84 Similar and Opposite Words

repellency

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Definition of repellency

as in repulsiveness

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Recent Examples of repellency It has been tested for durability, strength, stability and water repellency. — New Atlas, 3 Dec. 2025 Used across sectors and product categories, the substances are often found in cookware, firefighting foams, food packaging and apparel and footwear for waterproofing and oil repellency. — Kate Nishimura, Sourcing Journal, 16 July 2025 But to Muzio’s point, terrestrial birds use water repellency, too. — Ian Rose, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 June 2025 Even so, the lightweight layer is made of durable nylon with PFC-free water repellency. — Rachel Chang, Condé Nast Traveler, 17 Apr. 2024 See All Example Sentences for repellency

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Noun

In this attitude was a strange commingling of repugnance and desire, alienation and belonging, intimacy and coldness.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 14 July 2026
In fact, the retort could lead people to dangerously belittle the scourge and repugnance of real anti-Semitism.

— Salam Fayyad, Foreign Affairs, 20 June 2024

Definition of repugnance

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But Hokit’s offensiveness in the shadow of the president’s home — with the Washington Monument visible to the south — was one indication that anything and everything was inbounds.

— Oskar Garcia, New York Times, 15 June 2026
During this period, Dhillon moved away from the Review’s gleeful offensiveness toward positions suggesting a more moderate conservatism.

— Quinta Jurecic, The Atlantic, 13 Apr. 2026

Definition of offensiveness

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Then there is April 13, 1997, the day that will live in ice infamy for many Connecticut sports fans, the day the Whalers closed up shop in Hartford.

— Dom Amore, Hartford Courant, 23 Sep. 2026
However, a friendship with the family’s new housemaid, Bridget Sullivan (Vicky Krieps), cracks open Lizzie’s world, shepherding her along a bright and bloody path that will forever go down in infamy.

— Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 17 Sep. 2026

Definition of infamy

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In a pedagogical culture that tends to shy away from unpleasantness, Goodwin’s approach felt like an honest — and valuable — way of dealing with one of the ugliest aspects of American literary history.

— Helen I. Bennett, Hartford Courant, 25 Aug. 2026
Accustomed to Miller saving them, other Padres may have saved themselves some unpleasantness by sweeping the Marlins in three road games and now the Rockies in two.

— Tom Krasovic, San Diego Union-Tribune, 30 July 2026

Definition of unpleasantness

Noun

To Lose Their Citizenship Abraham noted during a Q&A at NYFF that much of the film overlaps with previous reporting and that atrocities in Gaza have been documented for years.

— Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 2 Oct. 2026
Eritrean forces fought alongside Ethiopia’s federal military during the previous war and were accused of atrocities against Tigrayan civilians.

— Alemayehu Fentaw Weldemariam, The Conversation, 29 Sep. 2026

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