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Centripetence

Cen-trip′e-tence

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Noun.
Centripetency.

Definition 2024


centripetence

centripetence

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Noun

centripetence (uncountable)

  1. tendency towards a center
    • Ralph Waldo Emerson
      [] the man being only a sort of compend of the globe with its centrifugence and centripetence, with its chemistry, with its polarity, with its undulation.