reaction - Similar and Opposite Words

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Noun

doing something in opposition to another way of doing it that you don't like

Synonyms

• reaction

More generic

• opposition
• resistance

More specific

• backlash

Noun

a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent

Synonyms

• reaction
• response

More generic

• activity
• bodily function
• bodily process
• body process

More specific

• Fere phenomenon
• GSR
• Tarchanoff phenomenon
• answer
• automatism
• double take
• electrical skin response
• electrodermal response
• galvanic skin response
• immune reaction
• immune response
• immunologic response
• inborn reflex
• innate reflex
• instinctive reflex
• kinesis
• learned reaction
• learned response
• overreaction
• passage
• passing
• physiological reaction
• psychogalvanic response
• rebound
• reflex
• reflex action
• reflex response
• taxis
• transfusion reaction
• tropism
• unconditioned reflex

Noun

an idea evoked by some experience

Synonyms

• reaction

More generic

• idea
• thought

Noun

extreme conservatism in political or social matters

Synonyms

• reaction

More generic

• conservatism
• conservativism

Noun

a response that reveals a person's feelings or attitude

Synonyms

• reaction

More generic

• response

Noun

(mechanics) the equal and opposite force that is produced when any force is applied to a body

Synonyms

• reaction

More generic

• force

Noun

(chemistry) a process in which one or more substances are changed into others

Synonyms

• chemical reaction
• reaction

More generic

• chemical action
• chemical change
• chemical process

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• addition reaction
• aldol reaction
• chain reaction
• chemical decomposition reaction
• chemical equilibrium
• decomposition
• decomposition reaction
• displacement
• displacement reaction
• double decomposition
• double decomposition reaction
• elimination reaction
• endothermic reaction
• equilibrium
• exothermic reaction
• hydrolysis
• metathesis
• neutralisation
• neutralisation reaction
• neutralization
• neutralization reaction
• oxidation
• oxidation-reduction
• oxidisation
• oxidization
• oxidoreduction
• photochemical reaction
• redox
• reducing
• reduction
• saponification

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