Impact vs Repercussion - What's the difference?
impact | repercussion | Synonyms |
The striking of one body against another; collision.
The force or energy of a collision of two objects.
(chiefly, medicine) A forced impinging.
A significant or strong influence; an effect.
To compress; to compact; to press or pack together.
(proscribed) To influence; to affect; to have an on.
To collide or strike.
A consequence or ensuing result of some action.
The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation.
* Hare
(music) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
(medicine) The subsidence of a tumour or eruption by the action of a repellent.
(obstetrics) In a vaginal examination, the act of imparting through the uterine wall with the finger a shock to the foetus, so that it bounds upward, and falls back again against the examining finger.
(Webster 1913)
Impact is a synonym of repercussion.
As nouns the difference between impact and repercussion
is that impact is the striking of one body against another; collision while repercussion is repercussion.As a verb impact
is to compress; to compact; to press or pack together.impact
English
Noun
(en noun)- The hatchet cut the wood on impact .
- His spine had an impingement; L4 and L5 made impact , which caused numbness in his leg.
- His friend's opinion had an impact on his decision.
- Our choice of concrete will have a tremendous impact on the building's mechanical performance.
Usage notes
* Adjectives often applied to "impact": social, political, physical, positive, negative, good, bad, beneficial, harmful, significant, great, important, strong, big, small, real, huge, likely, actual, potential, devastating, disastrous, true, primary. * The adposition generally used with "impact" is "on" (such as in last example in section above) * There are English speakers who are so ). In defensive editing, the solution is to replace the figurative noun sense with effect'' and the verb sense with ''affect , which nearly always produces an acceptable result. (Rarely, a phrase such as "the impact of late effects" is better stetted to avoid "the effect of [...] effects".)Derived terms
* impactful * impactive * impact statement * Western impactVerb
(en verb)- If fecal incontinence is caused by impacted stool in the rectum, the impaction must be removed.
- ''I can make the changes, but it will impact the schedule.
- When the hammer impacts the nail, it bends.
Usage notes
Some authorities object to the verb sense of impact'', meaning "to influence; to affect; to have an impact on" or "to collide or strike". Although most .Derived terms
* impactorrepercussion
English
Noun
(en noun)- You realize this little stunt of yours is going to have some pretty serious repercussions .
- the repercussion of sound
- Ever echoing back in endless repercussion .
- (Dunglison)