odiousness

odiousness

1. The image of an impending calamity is no doubt odious, but its very odiousness (we say) makes it haunt the mind all the more pertinaciously, and it is useless to expel it.

一步步逼近的灾难确实让人讨厌，但是它真正讨厌的地方是它还没来之前就一直牢牢占据着你的思想，而且怎么驱赶它都是徒劳。

2. and the reason usually assigned was, the odiousness of their own shapes, which all could see in the rest, but not in themselves.

一般认为这是因为它们的相貌太可怕，而这种可怕的样子，“野胡”们都只能在同类身上看到，却看不到自身其实也同样可怕。