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Reaction

//ɹiˈækʃən// noun

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Noun

1
An action or statement in response to a stimulus or other event.
"The announcement of the verdict brought a violent reaction."
2
doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like wordnet
3
A transformation in which one or more substances is converted into another by combination or decomposition.
"In this reaction, the acid and base will neutralize each other, producing a salt."
4
a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent wordnet
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Reactionary politics; a period in which reactionary thought or politics is resurgent or dominant.
"And as Europe advanced year by year more deeply into the low featureless plains of reaction, censorship and mediocrity and the pestilential swamps of poverty, unhappiness and oppression, the image of the liberating revolution became ever more luminous."

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an idea evoked by some experience wordnet
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Unpurposeful behavior. Austrian
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extreme conservatism in political or social matters wordnet
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An icon or emoji appended to a posted message by a user to express their feeling about it. Internet
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a response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude wordnet
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(mechanics) the equal and opposite force that is produced when any force is applied to a body wordnet
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(chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others wordnet

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English reaccion, from Old French reaction, from Latin reāctiō, from the verb reagō, from re- (“again”) + agō (“to act”); more at re-, action; equivalent to react + -ion.

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