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Rejection vs Repulsion - What's the difference?

rejection | repulsion |

As nouns the difference between rejection and repulsion

is that rejection is the act of rejecting while repulsion is repulsion (all senses).

rejection

English

(wikipedia rejection)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of rejecting.
  • The state of being rejected.
  • (sports) a blocked shot

    • Derived terms

    * rejection letter

    repulsion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
  • An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
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    • , title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=All this was extraordinarily distasteful to Churchill. It was ugly, gross. Never before had he felt such repulsion when the vicar displayed his characteristic bluntness or coarseness of speech. In the present connexion […] such talk had been distressingly out of place.}}
  • (physics) The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.

    • Antonyms

    * attraction

    Related terms

    * repel * repulsive * repellent

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