reactance
noun
Simple meaning
An emotional reaction in direct contradiction to rules or regulations that threaten or eliminate specific behavioral freedoms.
Pronunciation
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IPA pronunciation (US)
ɹiˈæktəns
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Definition
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noun
psychology
An emotional reaction in direct contradiction to rules or regulations that threaten or eliminate specific behavioral freedoms.
physicselectrics
Opposition to the flow of electric current resulting from inductance and capacitance (rather than resistance)
A similar effect in magnetism.
physicselectrics
The opposition to the change in flow of current in an alternating current circuit, due to inductance and capacitance; the imaginary part of the impedance. Symbol: X.
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This meaning: An emotional reaction in direct contradiction to rules or regulations that threaten or eliminate specific behavioral freedoms.
Used this way, reactance is a reasonably familiar word with a clearly unfavourable pull. It comes across as direct, sometimes bluntly so.
- Emotional tone
- Negative
- Formality
- Neutral
- Intensity
- Moderate
- How common
- Moderately common
- Connotation
- Serious and weighty
- Usage feel
- Blunt and forceful
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