repulsion en · NOUN
Pronunciation
- /ɹɪˈpʌlʃən/ (General-American)
- (Southern-England) audio
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French répulsion, from Late Latin repulsio, repulsionem, from Latin repulsus.
Meanings
- (countable, uncountable) The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
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(countable, uncountable) An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
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.
1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:Her voice was friendly enough, but Pincher wasn’t so exhausted or bonkers that he couldn’t see the cold repulsion of her eye.
1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 38:
- (countable, uncountable) The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| repulsions | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Antonyms
Deriveds
repulsion motor · Coulomb repulsion · interrepulsion · chemorepulsion · electrorepulsion
Relateds
repellent · repel · repulsive · repulse
Translations (46)
te వికర్షణ (the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled) · mi taieritanga (the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled) · ru отраже́ние (the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled) · es repulsión (the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled) · mi whakaweriweri (an extreme dislike of something) · ru антипа́тия (an extreme dislike of something) · ro repulsie (an extreme dislike of something) · de Abstoßung (the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled) · es repulsión (an extreme dislike of something) · bg отблъскване (the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled) · ru отвраще́ние (an extreme dislike of something) · ru отталкивание (physics: the repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity) · bg отблъскване (physics: the repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity) · hu eltaszítás (the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled) · mi ongaonga (an extreme dislike of something) · txb ykāṃṣe (an extreme dislike of something) · ro recul (physics: the repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity) · hu taszítás (physics: the repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity) · hu iszony (an extreme dislike of something) · de Abstoßung (an extreme dislike of something) · el απώθηση (the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled) · es repulsión (physics: the repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity) · mi whakarikarika (an extreme dislike of something) · de Abstoßung (physics: the repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity) · sq efsh (an extreme dislike of something) · bg антипатия (an extreme dislike of something) · tl sikway (the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled) · mi whakarihariha (an extreme dislike of something) · ro dezgust (an extreme dislike of something) · tl sikway (physics: the repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity) · de Abscheu (an extreme dislike of something) · mi taiaritanga (the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled) · hu irtózás (an extreme dislike of something) · mi whakahouhou (an extreme dislike of something) · et tõukejõud (physics: the repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity) · ro respingere (physics: the repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity) · de Repulsion (physics: the repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity) · mi kopekope (an extreme dislike of something) · hu taszítás (the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled) · hu iszonyodás (an extreme dislike of something) · pms repulsion (the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled) · de Repulsion (an extreme dislike of something) · ga éaradh (the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled) · ro repulsie (the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled) · da afvikling (the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled) · hu taszítóerő (physics: the repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity)