anathema
noun /əˈnæθəmə/
/əˈnæθəmə/
[uncountable, countable, usually singular] (formal)- a thing or an idea that you hate because it is the opposite of what you believe
- Racial prejudice is (an) anathema to me.
Word Originearly 16th cent.: from ecclesiastical Latin, ‘excommunicated person, excommunication’, from Greek anathema ‘thing dedicated’, (later) ‘thing devoted to evil, accursed thing’, from anatithenai ‘to set up’.