countercurrent

Examples

• All

• The human rights idea has provided a principal countercurrent to persisting state values.

  Academic text (1990)

• For despite the many countercurrents confronting him, Obama was eager to learn from us how previous presidents transcended their circumstances to achieve transformational administrations.

  Academic text (2010)

• Yet, as many critics have noted, there is a countercurrent in his often brilliantly metaphorical writing.

  Academic text (1997)

• The other view, which has come into its own in our cultural discussion only in very recent years, though it was always present to one extent or another as a countercurrent to the progressive view, describes this story in quite opposite terms.

  Academic text (1993)

• The region of Southern Asia has inherited its own share of the flux and countercurrents generated with the end of the Cold War.

  Academic text (1999)

• In recent times, the pressures of postmodern society have heightened this quest for local individualism, a process that is interpreted as a countercurrent to a commercialism that seeks to homogenize experience.

  Academic text (2003)

• Disunity is exactly what French Jesuit priests had brought to the Mohawk country, and so early Mohawk Protestantism also flowed from an anti-Roman Catholic countercurrent.

  Academic text (1992)

• There is a strong countercurrent of environmental activism among the younger generation, challenging traditional development practices.

• His work represents a countercurrent to the mainstream views held by established theorists in the field.

Synonyms

O

opposition

vscountercurrent

250 3.4

The act of resisting an idea, plan, or change

is the specific movement running against a prevailing group direction

P

pushback

vscountercurrent

43 5.9

A negative reaction from people to a plan or change

is a more general opposing tendency, not just reactive responses

C

crosscurrent

vscountercurrent

• Formal

1 8.0

A tendency inside a group that goes against the main opinion

is the general label for such social or group opposing tendencies

C

countermovement

vscountercurrent

6.8

An organized group that opposes another movement or trend

refers to the same opposing action but not necessarily organized

C

countertrend

vscountercurrent

7.5

Acting against the main trend or common style

covers any tendency against the main direction, deliberate or not

C

counter-narrative

vscountercurrent

7.4

Describing an action or message that challenges the official story

is broader, applying to actions and tendencies beyond stories and texts

Antonyms

M

mainstream

75 3.4

The ideas and activities most people accept as normal

How Opposed

rebellion

128 4.1

countercurrent

1 7.7

dissent

• Formal

73 6.6

movement

∞ 3.6

trend

667 2.3

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology