Definitions for repulsion

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repulsion re·pul·sion

Spelling: [ri-puhl-shuh n]

IPA: /rɪˈpʌl ʃən/

Repulsion is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 700 anagrams from letters in repulsion (eilnoprsu).

Definitions for repulsion

noun

1. the act of repulsing or the state of being repulsed.
2. the feeling of being repelled, as by the thought or presence of something; distaste, repugnance, or aversion.
3. Physics. the force that acts between bodies of like electric charge or magnetic polarity, tending to separate them.

Origin of repulsion

1375-1425; late Middle English Middle French Medieval Latin repulsiōn- (stem of Late Latin repulsiō), equivalent to Latin repuls(us) (see repulse) + -iōn-

Examples for repulsion

I lifted us gently, bow first, with a repulsion of the bow plates.

"No, thank you," she replied, and she was surprised at herself that she experienced no repulsion.

A sort of repulsion and attraction separated and kept them together at the same time.

My dad and Carlos had another thing in common: their repulsion at sentimentality.

If the good is there, so is the evil; if the affinity, so the repulsion; if the force, so the limitation.

Seeing it gave me the same feeling of unease and repulsion I had whenever witnessing self-flagellation.

The gravity-plates for repulsion were those in the helmet; for attraction, those in the boot-soles.

From that time the repulsion which I had felt for Lawrence disappeared.

"His people, though," thought Roma, and so she conquered her repulsion.

repulsion by Polanski is one of my real inspirations of several of his films.