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Ramifications vs Repercussion - What's the difference?

ramifications | repercussion |

As nouns the difference between ramifications and repercussion

is that ramifications is while repercussion is repercussion.

ramifications

English

Noun

(head)
    • ----

    repercussion

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A consequence or ensuing result of some action.
    • You realize this little stunt of yours is going to have some pretty serious repercussions .
  • The act of driving back, or the state of being driven back; reflection; reverberation.
    • the repercussion of sound
  • * Hare
    • Ever echoing back in endless repercussion .
  • (music) Rapid reiteration of the same sound.
  • (medicine) The subsidence of a tumour or eruption by the action of a repellent.
    • (Dunglison)
  • (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)

    Synonyms

    * (consequence) aftereffect * (consequence) consequence