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DETESTATION
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hate coupled with disgust
Synonyms:
abhorrence; abomination; detestation; execration; loathing; odium
Classified under:
Nouns denoting feelings and emotions
Hypernyms ("detestation" 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:
detest (dislike intensely; feel antipathy or aversion towards)
Context examples:
As I was looking about for a secure landing-place, I saw a sail to the north-north-east, which appearing every minute more visible, I was in some doubt whether I should wait for them or not; but at last my detestation of the Yahoo race prevailed: and turning my canoe, I sailed and paddled together to the south, and got into the same creek whence I set out in the morning, choosing rather to trust myself among these barbarians, than live with European Yahoos.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
