Assertion: disgust | /r/SimilarTo | bad taste
Facets:
value: literally
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: In essence, disgust is a powerful tool for discernment; while, as Haidt et al argue, disgust may have originated from the need to keep physically repulsive foods out of the body’s interior (disgust literally means “bad taste”), it may have been “preadapted” as a rejection system more generally, allowing a culturally specific means of deciding not only what can be safely incorporated into the body, but also what is threatening to the borders of individuality or self, too.