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Repulsion

//ɹɪˈpʌlʃən// noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    the act of repulsing or repelling an attack; a successful defensive stand wordnet
  3. 3
    An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something. countable, uncountable

    "All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion[…] such talk had been distressingly out of place."

  4. 4
    intense aversion wordnet
  5. 5
    The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    the force by which bodies repel one another wordnet

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French répulsion, from Late Latin repulsio, repulsionem, from Latin repulsus.

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