abomination

[ uh-bom-uh-ney-shuhn ]

noun

1. anything abominable; anything greatly disliked or abhorred.
2. intense aversion or loathing; detestation:

   He regarded lying with abomination.

   Synonyms: hatred

3. a vile, shameful, or detestable action, condition, habit, etc.:

   Spitting in public is an abomination.

   Synonyms: depravity, corruption

abomination

/ əˌbɒmɪˈneɪʃən /

noun

1. a person or thing that is disgusting
2. an action that is vicious, vile, etc
3. intense loathing

Other Words From

• self-a·bomi·nation noun
• super·a·bomi·nation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of abomination¹

1350–1400; Middle English ab ( h ) ominacioun < Late Latin abōminātiōn- (stem of abōminātiō ). See abominate, -ion

Example Sentences

Because of this journey, when I walk into spaces now, my identity is not because I’m an abomination.

From Washington Blade

It doesn’t matter if you’re the sole fan of a beautiful abomination.

From Popular-Science

As more violence is planned out in the open, the shrugging and lukewarm calls for unity are a familiar abomination that has allowed racism and violence to continue unabated throughout our history.

From Fortune

Invoking the abominations of outsourced jobs, rural depression, and lost wages, he tapped in to neoliberal dysfunction and hitched the outrage to authoritarian rule.

From MIT Technology Review

An abomination of a character, Hisler is unlikable and unwatchable, much like the movie itself.

From FiveThirtyEight

American sanctions on Russia, he said, were an “abomination of hypocrisy.”

From The Daily Beast

Everyone who loves India should mourn this abomination called Telangana.

From The Daily Beast

How about the Super Bowl this year, when train services to and from the game was an absolute abomination?

From The Daily Beast

Someone like Utah Republican Orrin Hatch had to know deep down what a procedural and constitutional abomination this was.

From The Daily Beast

Was this a deliberate attempt to soften his constantly repeated refrain that Obamacare is an abomination?

From The Daily Beast

Then he did what no economic Switzer has probably done before or since—he actually flung away the still burning abomination.

From Project Gutenberg

In others wax tapers must be lighted at noon, although in the primitive ages they were held in abomination.

From Project Gutenberg

Their admitted reverence for Sheitan constitutes an abomination which neither Moslem nor Christian can condone.

From Project Gutenberg

With this they wear a low hat, an abomination called the derby.

From Project Gutenberg

It was a melancholy sight—a perfect abomination of desolation.

From Project Gutenberg