counteractionn.
/kaʊntərˈakʃən/ 1. Adverse or contrary action, action in opposition to action, resistance.
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the world > action or operation > [noun] > contrary operation or action
counterwork1598
counter-motion1606
countercurrence1643
counterworking1664
counter-current1684
counteraction1750
counter-movement1818
counter-agency1831
counter-move1858
the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun]
contrariositya1340
adversitya1382
champertyc1386
contrariousness1398
thwartingc1430
contrariancec1450
contrariness?1530
withsitting1532
oppugning1535
opposition1548
oppugnation1563
thwartness1577
adverseness1580
crossing1580
breasting1594
antipathy1601
oppugnancy1609
affrontment1611
opposure1611
thortera1614
contrariancya1617
obstancy1616
oppositeness1619
contropposition1621
obstrigillation1623
opposing1624
hostility1632
opposal1638
crossness1641
affront1642
aversion1651
oppugnance1657
shock1664
opponency1727
counteraction1750
antagonism1797
throwing1816
oppositiveness1824
kick1839
variance1842
opposedness1853
againstness1909
hornet1921
adversariness1970
oppositionality1989
1750 S. Johnson Rambler No. 29. ⁋8 A temper..which..fills him with perpetual stratagems of counteraction.
1751 S. Johnson Rambler No. 168. ⁋5 From the counteraction of the words to the idea.
1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 50 That opposition of interests..that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world [etc.] . View more context for this quotation
1800 Duke of Wellington in Marquess Wellesley Select. Despatches (1877) 690 You will exclude from the public records every indication of jealousy and counteraction.
1862 J. Ruskin Unto this Last 71 The action and counteraction of wealth and poverty.
2. The counteracting or neutralizing of any action or tendency.
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the world > action or operation > operation upon something > [noun] > neutralizing or counteracting
correction1477
countervailinga1613
counteraction1791
neutralization1817
1791 H. More Estimate Relig. Fashionable World 142 People whose whole life..is one continued counteraction of the principles in which they have probably been bred.
1808 Ann. Reg. 1806, 917 It afforded the best counteraction of the turbulent spirit of reform.
1871 J. S. Blackie Four Phases Morals i. 34 Instincts which, if left without counteraction, would naturally lead to isolation.
3. A counteracting influence or force.
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the world > action or operation > [noun] > contrary operation or action > that which
antidote1548
orvietan1654
counteracter1805
counter-agent1821
counteraction1822
counteractive1848
counteractant1884
1822 S. T. Coleridge Lett., Conversat., & Recoll. II. 91 If instead of a Helpmate we take an Obstacle, a daily counteraction.
1842 H. E. Manning Serm. xvi. 230 The fretting of little daily counteractions.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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