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counterimpulse en · NOUN

Etymology

From counter- + impulse.

Meanings

1. An impulse that runs counter to another impulse.
   • If the presence of a counterimpulse were sufficient to determine a mistake all of us should and would be constantly making mistakes. 1921, Psyche and Eros:
   • In the conflict theory, there is an impulse or a motive, and an opposing counterimpulse or countermotive. 1982, Introducing Psychoanalytic Theory, page 119:
   • This counterimpulse tends to embrace everything difficult and European with juvenile zeal. 1988 November 11, Andrew Goodwin, “Reading: The Cultural Crash of '89”, in Chicago Reader:

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