2007-03-17 20:51:49 · 12 answers · asked by Lover of God 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
Well, according to dictionary.com, it's defined as:
"a vile, shameful, or detestable action, condition, habit, etc.: Spitting in public is an abomination."
2007-03-17 20:55:52 · answer #1 · answered by Angel 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
do we hear it all the time? Maybe a lime-green Earl Scheib paint job on a Ferrari would be an abomination but that's me saying the word in English, not translating to English. According to a couple sources I've read (one below) abomination as used in the bible, especially the OT means something less subjectively disgusting and more...just a bad idea, a taboo. They get abomination instead of taboo because they didn't have taboo when the KJV bible was written.
Apparently spitting on the sidewalk is an abomination to some people, as is marrying one's cousin, even if she looks like Nikki Cox.
2007-03-18 04:10:12 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I guess depending on what you use it as.
Abomination may refer to:
Abomination (Bible), covering Biblical references
Abomination (Dune), from Frank Herbert's Dune series, a fetus who has become conscious before birth
Abomination (comics), a Marvel Comics supervillain
Abomination: The Nemesis Project, a real time strategy computer game
Visser Three the only Yeerk to infest an Andalite in the fictional Animorphs book series.
A werewolf who has also become a vampire in the series of role-playing games set in the World of Darkness
Genetically modified demons from the role-playing game Feng Shui
Heavy melee units from the undead race in the computer real time strategy game Warcraft III
"Abominations unto Nuggan", a reference from Terry Pratchet's Discworld series
2007-03-18 03:57:38 · answer #3 · answered by bug_puddin 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Extreme disgust and hatred, the word refers to anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile.
Saying gay people are abominations shows how ignorant some minorities can be
2007-03-18 03:56:30 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
abomination
"c.1325, "feeling of disgust, hatred, loathing," from O.Fr. abomination, from L. abominationem (nom. abominatio) "abomination," from abominatus, pp. of abominari "shun as an ill omen," from ab- "off, away from" + omin-, stem of omen (see omen). Meaning intensified by folk etymology derivation from L. ab homine "away from man," thus "beastly." Abominable snowman (1921) translates Tibetan meetaoh kangmi."
2007-03-18 03:57:09 · answer #5 · answered by Susan M 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Disgust
2007-03-18 03:58:39 · answer #6 · answered by Augustine 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It means extremely disgusting or looked down upon.
2007-03-18 03:58:52 · answer #7 · answered by Classy Gal 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
abomination :anything greatly disliked or abhorred.
2007-03-18 03:57:59 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Detestable or loathsome.
2007-03-18 03:55:49 · answer #9 · answered by beano™ 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Homosexuality, or some other depraved act.
2007-03-18 03:55:19 · answer #10 · answered by Joseph C 5 · 1⤊ 2⤋