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What does repulsion mean?

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Noun
  1. The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
  2. An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
  3. (physics) The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.
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It subsumes both the movements of empathy and of repulsion toward an object implicit in pity and fear.
Alcaeus directed her gaze to Lena for just a moment, his gaze full of repulsion.
A look of repulsion for the sickening display of uncontrolled emotion and loud drunkenness was plastered on his clean-shaven face.
We respond to Oedipus' plight, which includes his own feelings of repulsion about incest, an evaluation which we may share.
If the laser frequencies are high enough, the deuteron effectively feels the proton's force in all directions, and the repulsion cancels itself.
Whatever the truth, the repulsion felt at that decade can tar even the most innocent.

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