嫌悪

1. Origins, structure, and basic meaning

• Structure: The spelling is 嫌悪, read けんお, and it combines 嫌, meaning dislike, with 悪, meaning hate or regard as bad.
• Basic usage: 嫌悪 means disgust or aversion, a strong feeling of revulsion toward someone or something.

2. Common pitfalls and similar expressions

• Disgust toward an external act and aversion directed at oneself
  • Both examples use the form 嫌悪. One is an intense response to cruelty; the other is aversion to one's own weakness expressed through a work.
• A reaction to cruelty and self-aversion expressed in art
  • 残酷な行為に強い嫌悪を覚えました。 — I felt intense disgust at the cruel act.
  • 彼女は自分の弱さに対する嫌悪を作品に表しました。 — She expressed her aversion to her own weakness through her work.