counterreaction
noun
coun·ter·re·ac·tion
| \ ˌkau̇n-tər-rē-ˈak-shən
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variants:
or counter-reaction
plural counterreactions
or counter-reactions
Definition of counterreaction
: a reaction in response or opposition to the main reaction
This situation … is inherently unstable and was bound to produce a counterreaction.— David Brooks … tax cuts could only stimulate so much growth. At worst, they could trigger too severe a counterreaction by the Fed, which might throw the economy into recession. — The New Republic a literary counter-reaction to modernism
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