counterreaction
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5.9
- noun
- /ˌkaʊntərriˈækʃən/
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contrarreacción
- The new policy sparked a counterreaction among the local community, who felt their voices were ignored.
Examples
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After the initial protest, there was a strong counterreaction from the government to maintain order.
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Schiller, writing at the beginning of the period of Romantic counterreaction to the Enlightenment, felt that art was increasingly at risk of becoming irrelevant in the modern age.
Academic text (2003) -
Sitting there in the ungiving curve of plastic and metal, she felt the active, darting movement of the atoms of self, each of them in direct, pendant counterreaction to profound and critical musings on the other side of the galaxies, before the origin of time.
Fiction book (1995) -
Meanwhile, Indonesian Foreign Minister Marty Natalegawa commented on the U.S. agreement to base troops on the Australian island of Darwin by saying, "What I would hate to see is if such developments were to provoke a reaction and counterreaction precisely to create that vicious circle of tensions and mistrust."
Blog text (14) -
His comments provoked a counterreaction from his peers, as they disagreed with his controversial views.
Synonyms
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6.5
Something that prevents or reduces harm
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6.7
An action to respond to an opponent and get back an advantage
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6.3
An action that reduces or stops the effect of something
A movement in the opposite direction to balance another movement
A strong public reaction that opposes someone's words or actions
How Opposing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Counterreaction combines counter- ('against') and reaction ('a response'). Think of it like a counterattack: it is a response that works against or cancels the first reaction, so it tries to stop or balance what happened before.