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Reaction

noun

(chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others. Synonym: chemical reaction.

An idea evoked by some experience.

A bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent. Synonym: response. "His responses have slowed with age"

(mechanics) the equal and opposite force that is produced when any force is applied to a body.

A response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude. "John feared his mother's reaction when she saw the broken lamp"

Extreme conservatism in political or social matters.

Doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like.

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"Reaction" Quotes from Famous Books

... ready-handed criminal agent, as it was possible to conceive. In his singular character the dual nature alternately asserted itself, and his extreme exactness and astuteness represented, as I have often thought, the reaction against the poetic and contemplative mood which occasionally predominated in him. The swing of his nature took him from extreme languor to devouring energy; and, as I knew well, he was never so truly ...

— The Boy Scouts Book of Stories • Various

... distant when the builders of homes in our American cities will be compelled to leave room for a garden, in order to meet the requirements of the people In the mad rush for wealth we have overlooked the natural state, but we see a healthy reaction setting in. With the improvements in steam and electricity, the revolutionizing of transportation, the cutting of the arbitrary telephone charges, it is becoming possible to live at a distance from our business. May we not expect in the near future to see one ...

— Three Acres and Liberty • Bolton Hall

... time. It forms a part of the philosophic atmosphere to-day. The tough think of the tender as sentimentalists and soft-heads. The tender feel the tough to be unrefined, callous, or brutal. Their mutual reaction is very much like that that takes place when Bostonian tourists mingle with a population like that of Cripple Creek. Each type believes the other to be inferior to itself; but disdain in the one case is mingled with ...

— Pragmatism - A New Name for Some Old Ways of Thinking • William James

... it broadly from the older world; and the unity of the new is manifest in the universal spirit of investigation and discovery which did not cease to operate, and withstood the recurring efforts of reaction, until, by the advent of the reign of general ideas which we call the Revolution, it at length prevailed.[12] This successive deliverance and gradual passage, for good and evil, from subordination to independence is a phenomenon of primary import ...

— A Lecture on the Study of History • Lord Acton

... was the aesthetic revolution of Morris, there was a very definite limit to it. It did not lie only in the fact that his revolution was in truth a reaction, though this was a partial explanation of his partial failure. When he was denouncing the dresses of modern ladies, 'upholstered like arm-chairs instead of being draped like women,' as he forcibly expressed it, he would hold up for practical imitation the costumes and handicrafts ...

— Twelve Types • G.K. Chesterton

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