Counterattracting vs Counterattraction - What's the difference?
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(rare) Serving to counterattract.
* 1969 : Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science Sentinel , volume 71,
* 1992 : Evelyn Gajowski, The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male Discursive Traditions in Shakespeare’s Tragedies ,
Something that vies for the attention of a person or thing in competition with something else; a rival for preference.
* 1956, January 31st: ; quoted in:
* 1988 : James B. Simpson, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations ,
Counterattracting is a related term of counterattraction.
As an adjective counterattracting
is (rare) serving to counterattract.As a noun counterattraction is
something that vies for the attention of a person or thing in competition with something else; a rival for preference.counterattracting
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- There are no counterattracting or counteracting forces in God or in His universe, including man.
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- His emotional dependency on her is matched and balanced by her dependency on him in a continuous, reciprocal, attracting and counterattracting , responsive and counter-responsive interrelationship.
counterattraction
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(en noun)? 4,393] ([[w:Houghton Mifflin, Houghton Mifflin], ISBN 0395430852)
- The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief?—?call it what you will?—?than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.