repulsion

Or they could simply be arresting abstractions in a sculpture that sits aesthetically between formal attraction and repulsion.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 10, 2026

At the time, watching these videos didn’t elicit nausea or repulsion in Jemima—they came across as amusing.

From Slate ● May 12, 2026

Polling data backs up this anecdotal display of repulsion towards racist violence.

From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2026

For Tinashe, the incongruity of being the kind of person who has their Zoom camera off a day after they sang about seduction, repulsion and red flags in front of thousands seems the entire point.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 4, 2024

The present—the passing second of time—was all I had in which to control and restrain him: a movement of repulsion, flight, fear would have sealed my doom,—and his.

From "Jane Eyre" by Charlotte Brontë

Over distances less than 10−15 meters and within the nucleus, the strong nuclear force is much stronger than electrostatic repulsions between protons; over larger distances and outside the nucleus, it is essentially nonexistent.

From Textbooks ● Feb. 14, 2019

We can also learn how to get over our repulsions.

From The Verge ● May 9, 2018

Mr. Hastings writes incisively about the attractions and repulsions of the new media gossip.

From New York Times ● Jun. 17, 2014

Strong repulsions at pH values of 4 and 11 but not at pH 7 indicate that the neuraminidase-like domain acts as an electrostatic lock that opens at high or low pH values.

From Nature ● Apr. 4, 2014

These things are in the air at a given time—reactions, repulsions, wearinesses—I think.

From The Nest, The White Pagoda, The Suicide, A Forsaken Temple, Miss Jones and The Masterpiece by Anne Douglas Sedgwick