COUNTERACTION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does counteraction mean? 

• COUNTERACTION (noun)
  The noun COUNTERACTION has 1 sense:

1. action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action

  Familiarity information: COUNTERACTION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COUNTERACTION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Action intended to nullify the effects of some previous action

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

Synonyms:

counteraction; neutralisation; neutralization

Hypernyms ("counteraction" is a kind of...):

nullification; override (the act of nullifying; making null and void; counteracting or overriding the effect or force of something)

Derivation:

counteract (oppose and mitigate the effects of by contrary actions)

 Context examples 

A counteraction, gentle and continual, is the best safeguard of manners and conduct.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

On the contrary, she was so totally unused to have her pleasure consulted, or to have anything take place at all in the way she could desire, that she was more disposed to wonder and rejoice in having carried her point so far, than to repine at the counteraction which followed.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

He submitted to believe that Tom's illness had influenced her, only reserving for himself this consoling thought, that considering the many counteractions of opposing habits, she had certainly been more attached to him than could have been expected, and for his sake been more near doing right.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)