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repulsion

US/ɹɪˈpʌlʃən/

repulsion noun: the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.

Noun

repulsion (countable and uncountable, plural repulsions)

  1. The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
  2. 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
  3. The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.

repulsion meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Telugu

repulsion in Hindi

repulsion
प्रतिकर्षण pratikarṣaṇ

repulsion in Tamil

தள்ளுகை, விலக்கம், விலக்கித் தள்ளுதல், எதிர் தள்ளல், எதிர்த்துடிப்பு

repulsion in Urdu

رد, زک

repulsion in Telugu

the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled
వికర్షణ vikarṣaṇa
More languagesFewer languages
repulsion in Malayalam
പ്രതികർഷണം, തുരത്തൽ, വിരോധം, അകൽച്ച
repulsion in Kannada
ಹಿಮ್ಮೆಟ್ಟಿಸುವಿಕೆ, ಹಿಂದೂಡಿಕೆ, ವಿಕರ್ಷಣೆ, ಹೇಸಿಕೆ
repulsion in Tagalog
sikway

Examples of repulsion in a sentence

  • Compression shortens the O:H nonbond and lengthens the H-O bond simultaneously via O:H-O Coulomb repulsion.
  • A mass accelerator propels a solid metal slug using precisely-controlled electromagnetic attraction and repulsion.
  • When she looked at photographs of raging urticaria or furfuraceous rashes, she teetered between repulsion and captivation.

All 12 example sentences with repulsion

Antonyms of repulsion

Forms of repulsion

pluralrepulsions

Plural of repulsion: repulsions

Origin of repulsion

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

Words formed from repulsion

Phrases with repulsion

Questions about repulsion

What does repulsion mean?
Repulsion means the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
What is repulsion in Hindi?
Repulsion in Hindi is प्रतिकर्षण (pratikarṣaṇ). See Repulsion meaning in Hindi.
What part of speech is repulsion?
Repulsion is a noun.
How do you pronounce repulsion?
Repulsion is pronounced /ɹɪˈpʌlʃən/ (US).
What is the plural of repulsion?
The plural of repulsion is repulsions.

Words near repulsion in the dictionary

  1. repulser
  2. repulsers
  3. repulses
  4. repulsing
  5. repulsingly
  6. repulsion
  7. repulsion motor
  8. repulsion motors
  9. repulsions
  10. repulsive
  11. repulsively

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Adapted from Wiktionary: repulsion (page history and authors); प्रतिकर्षण (Hindi) (page history and authors); repulsion (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); repulsion (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); repulsion (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); repulsion (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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