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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

English

Adjective

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  • (rare) Serving to counterattract.
  • * 1969 : Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science Sentinel , volume 71, page 970 (The Christian Science Publishing Society)
  • There are no counterattracting or counteracting forces in God or in His universe, including man.
  • * 1992 : Evelyn Gajowski, The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male Discursive Traditions in Shakespeare’s Tragedies , page 112] ([http://www.aupresses.com/ University of Delaware Press; ISBN 087413398X, 9780874133981)
  • 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

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • 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 , ? 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.