LOATHING

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does loathing mean? 

• LOATHING (noun)
  The noun LOATHING has 1 sense:

1. hate coupled with disgust

  Familiarity information: LOATHING used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LOATHING (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Hate coupled with disgust

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Synonyms:

abhorrence; abomination; detestation; execration; loathing; odium

Hypernyms ("loathing" is a kind of...):

disgust (strong feelings of dislike)

hate; hatred (the emotion of intense dislike; a feeling of dislike so strong that it demands action)

Derivation:

loathe (find repugnant)

 Context examples 

I could, however, see that his face was deadly pale and filled with horror and loathing.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But there was no love in my own heart, nothing but loathing for the foul Thing which had taken Lucy's shape without her soul.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was a deep, aggressive loathing of which you may even now form some conception if you examine the papers or caricatures of the day.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had taken a loathing to my gentleman at first sight.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)

He felt a loathing for them such as Circe must have felt for her swine.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

I cannot tell you the loathing and horror with which this insignificant-looking man inspired me.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She gave no sign that she had heard, though the expression of her eyes changed to one of inexpressible loathing as she started to turn away.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I turned with loathing from the woman who could utter so unfeeling a speech to a person just saved, on the very edge of death; but I felt languid and unable to reflect on all that had passed.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He brought out of the Yahoos’ kennel a piece of ass’s flesh; but it smelt so offensively that I turned from it with loathing: he then threw it to the Yahoo, by whom it was greedily devoured.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

At that moment the remnant of my love passed into hate and loathing; had she then to be killed, I could have done it with savage delight.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)