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Antonyms for reactions
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : ree-ak-shuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : riˈæk ʃən |
Definition of reactions
Origin :- "action in resistance or response to another action or power," 1610s, from re- "again, anew" + action (q.v.). Modeled on French réaction, older Italian reattione, from Medieval Latin reactionem (nominative reactio), noun of action formed in Late Latin from past participle stem of Latin reagere "react," from re- "back" + agere "to do, act" (see act (v.)).
- Originally scientific; physiological sense is attested from 1805; psychological sense first recorded 1887; general sense of "action or feeling in response" (to a statement, event, etc.) is recorded from 1914. Reaction time, "time elapsing between the action of an external stimulus and the giving of a signal in reply," attested by 1874.
- noun response
- noun political conservativism
- Least of all do these actions and reactions affect the fortunes of true romance.
- Extract from : « The American Mind » by Bliss Perry
- There are many transitions and varieties, but the reactions we have mentioned are the most common.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- Now there are no reactions in literature unless there is some excess to provoke them.
- Extract from : « The Legacy of Greece » by Various
- Let also the reactions or rests be equally definite and decided.
- Extract from : « How to Add Ten Years to your Life and to Double Its Satisfactions » by S. S. Curry
- But all seeming things are only reactions to something else.
- Extract from : « The Book of the Damned » by Charles Fort
- From that time on any sudden impression released the same group of reactions.
- Extract from : « Psychotherapy » by Hugo Mnsterberg
- The reactions of the tissue are in all respects those of the lignocelluloses.
- Extract from : « Researches on Cellulose » by C. F. Cross
- God wants to show us our reactions, and only when we are willing to be cleansed there, will we have His peace.
- Extract from : « The Calvary Road » by Roy Hession
- It is not enough just to take our reactions of irritation to Calvary.
- Extract from : « The Calvary Road » by Roy Hession
- It is too delicate a thing to stand any power that upsets the reactions so violently.
- Extract from : « Islands of Space » by John W Campbell
Synonyms for reactions
- acknowledgment
- answer
- attitude
- back talk
- backfire
- backlash
- backsliding
- boomerang
- comeback
- compensation
- counteraction
- counterbalance
- counterpoise
- counterrevolution
- double-take
- echo
- feedback
- feeling
- hit
- kick
- kickback
- knee-jerk
- lip
- obscurantism
- opinion
- reagency
- rebound
- reception
- receptivity
- reciprocation
- recoil
- reflection
- reflex
- regression
- rejoinder
- relapse
- repercussion
- reply
- retort
- retreat
- retrenchment
- retrogression
- return
- reverberation
- revulsion
- right
- right wing
- sass
- snappy comeback
- status quo
- take
- Toryism
- vibes
- wisecrack
- withdrawal
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