Repulsiveness vs Repulsion - What's the difference?
repulsiveness | repulsion |
The act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.
An extreme dislike of something, or hostility to something.
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, title= (physics) The repulsive force acting between bodies of the same electric charge or magnetic polarity.
As nouns the difference between repulsiveness and repulsion
is that repulsiveness is the characteristic of being repulsive while repulsion is the act of repelling or the condition of being repelled.repulsion
English
Noun
(en noun)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.}}