What is "repulsion"

Usage examples of "repulsion".

I selected it as the antonym for attractive, attraction and repulsion being opposite forces.

Benesch points out that in order to correct many malpresentations it is necessary to apply traction and repulsion at the same time, and to do that with one hand in a straining cow is impossible.

For all her repulsion at the idea of playing a bare-breasted mermaid, even worse was the idea of going back to Bugg.

The final particles or monads of air or granite are not dissolvingly blended into continuity of unindividualized atmosphere or rock when united with their elemental masses, but are thrust unapproachably apart by molecular repulsion.

I knew that my feelings were neither spontaneous nor natural because I could visualize the cobra without looking at it and feel nothing, I could remember the bushmaster that had killed Alexandra and the coral snake that had almost killed me and feel nothing, yet as soon as my gaze fell on the cobra in its cage the repulsion was there, and with it the fear that snakes had never before inspired in me.

But far more often, the mention of candy triggers long, enthusiastic exchanges about top candies, addictions and repulsions, flavors and habits.

The engines that so imperfectly transformed magnetic attraction to a halfhearted repulsion functioned more and more smoothly as the complication of gravitic pull and counterpull yielded to distance.

Reasoning by sound analogy, the heavens and hells of the future state are not monotonous circles each filled with mutually reflecting personalities, but one fenceless spiritual world of distinctive, ever varying degrees, sympathetic and contrasted life, circulating freshness, variety of attractions and repulsions, divine advancement.

The men, farm hands from the neighbouring ranches, young fellows from Guadalajara, drew back in instinctive repulsion.

The shinier the apples of attraction, Vulture, the wormier their maggots of repulsion.

She took to reading, between bouts of nausea, cheap paperback accounts of true crime, serial killers stalking the lonely down I-95, a satanic cult of teenage cannibals terrorizing Fresno, the crossdressing rapist of upper Broadway, stories with the same ambivalent allure of a reptile house, dread wound into hypnotic coils vibrant with meaning, even repulsion had its own particular message to impart.

Once a strong desire is created, it will tend to induce a corresponding desire in others, and there will be something similar to attraction and repulsion, based on these interacting desire-fields.

She did not dream of being on the giddy ridge of the passive or negative sentiment of love, where one step to the wrong side precipitates us into the state of repulsion.

But if there are any to whom all that is human is of interest, who have felt in their own consciousness some stirrings of invincible attraction to one individual and equally invincible repugnance to another, who know by their own experience that elective affinities have as their necessary counterpart, and, as it were, their polar opposites, currents not less strong of elective repulsions, let them read with unquestioning faith the story of a blighted life I am about to relate, much of it, of course, received from the lips of others.

If in his judgment it throws any light on one of the deeper mysteries of our nature,--the repulsions which play such a formidable part in social life, and which must be recognized as the correlatives of the affinities that distribute the individuals governed by them in the face of impediments which seem to be impossibilities,--then it may be freely given to the world.