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repulsions

repulsions is the plural of repulsion.

Meaning of repulsion

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
  3. The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.

Questions about repulsions

What is repulsions the plural of?
Repulsions is the plural of repulsion.

Words near repulsions in the dictionary

  1. repulsing
  2. repulsingly
  3. repulsion
  4. repulsion motor
  5. repulsion motors
  6. repulsions
  7. repulsive
  8. repulsively
  9. repulsiveness
  10. repulsivenesses
  11. repulson

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