centripetence

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noun

A tendency towards a center

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Meanings

nouncentripetence (uncountable)

alternative centripetency

  1. uncountableA tendency towards a center

    […] 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.

    1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Natural Method of Mental Philosophy
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