Rebuff vs Catastrophe - What's the difference?
rebuff | catastrophe | Related terms |
A sudden resistance or refusal.
Repercussion, or beating back.
* Milton
To refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out.
To buff again.
Any large and disastrous event of great significance.
(insurance) A disaster beyond expectations
(narratology) The dramatic event that initiates the resolution of the plot in a tragedy.
(mathematics) A type of bifurcation, where a system shifts between two stable states.
Rebuff is a related term of catastrophe.
As verbs the difference between rebuff and catastrophe
is that rebuff is to refuse; to offer sudden or harsh resistance; to turn down or shut out while catastrophe is .As a noun rebuff
is a sudden resistance or refusal.rebuff
English
Noun
(en noun)- He was surprised by her quick rebuff to his proposal.
- the strong rebuff of some tumultuous cloud