repulsion

See also: repulsión and répulsion

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈpʌlʃən/

• Audio (Southern England):

  (file)

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.
   • 1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter XII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

     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.

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

Antonyms

• attraction

Derived terms

• chemorepulsion
• Coulomb repulsion
• electrorepulsion
• interrepulsion
• repulsion motor

Related terms

• repel
• repulse
• repulsive
• repellent

Translations

the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled

Bulgarian: отблъскване (bg) n (otblǎskvane) Danish: afvikling German: Abstoßung (de) f Greek: απώθηση (el) f (apóthisi) Hungarian: taszítás (hu), eltaszítás (hu) Irish: éaradh m Maori: taiaritanga, taieritanga Piedmontese: repulsion f Romanian: repulsie (ro) f Russian: отраже́ние (ru) (otražénije) Spanish: repulsión (es) f Tagalog: sikway Telugu: వికర్షణ (te) (vikarṣaṇa)

an extreme dislike of something

Albanian: efsh (sq) m Bulgarian: антипатия (bg) f (antipatija) German: Abstoßung (de), Repulsion f, Abscheu (de) f Hungarian: irtózás (hu), iszony (hu), iszonyodás (hu) Maori: whakarihariha, ongaonga, whakarikarika, whakahouhou, kopekope, whakaweriweri Romanian: repulsie (ro) f, dezgust (ro) n Russian: антипа́тия (ru) f (antipátija), отвраще́ние (ru) n (otvraščénije) Spanish: repulsión (es) f Tocharian B: ykāṃṣe

physics: the repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity

Bulgarian: отблъскване (bg) n (otblǎskvane) Estonian: tõukejõud (et) German: Abstoßung (de) f, Repulsion f Hungarian: taszítás (hu), taszítóerő Romanian: respingere (ro) f, recul (ro) n Russian: отталкивание (ru) n (ottalkivanije) Spanish: repulsión (es) f Tagalog: sikway

Anagrams

• neuropils, unspoiler

Piedmontese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /repylˈsjuŋ/

Noun

repulsion f

1. repulsion