Meaning of disattract | Babel Free

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Synonym of repel.

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“Man’s spirit, severing, draws after it a third of finite spirits; his soul disparting, leads astray a third of wandering souls; his body, disuniting, attracts a third of disattracting bodies.”

“Some “Socialists” say⟳ a “millionaire or a preacher joining the party attracts the attention of other people who might otherwise be hostile to it.” Socialism if it is anything is a revolutionary force⟳ and not a side-show “attraction” and people that can be attracted by little tin gods can also be disattracted by the same process⟳.”

“That is the use⟳ to which advertisers put⟳ the air medium; the usefulness and profitable return⟳ of which are seriously impaired by the lack of psychological understanding by many of its customers who spend⟳ a great deal⟳ of money in utilizing it to exploit their wares and to dis-attract business.”

“It may not redound to the intellectual and spiritual credit of the Negro PWs, but the attraction of the gadgets and output of American industry acted at the same time “disattract” them from the primitive standard of living In China and North Korea.”

“Further, the specification of one target⟳ group in one target⟳ area inevitably disattracts other potentially needful groups.”

“Yet Santayana’s insistence that one envisages things sub specie boni or mali whenever one is attracted or disattracted by them serves to remind⟳ us of something too often forgotten by moralists, namely that when moral terms are used sincerely they point⟳ to an immediately felt value in envisaged situations which is equally present⟳ when these are such as the social nature of language makes it hard for us to describe⟳ as good or evil, as (for example) when they are such as satisfy⟳ or frustrate impulses which are frankly vindictive.”

“Take⟳ statement making; there is an elaborate system about statement making. It is called scientific methodology or epistemology or a lot of different names. Under what conditions are you justified in making a statement? How do you verify a statement once it is made? I see⟳ no way of accounting for that in terms of notions like⟳ attraction and repulsion. You can say⟳, “Well, I am attracted to the confirming evidence and disattracted to the disconfirming evidence.””

“The rural income has been increased and the urbanization side-effects such as population, layoff, inflation, slum, disattract rural people.”

“I can think⟳ of situations where you are trying to move⟳ the inventory on, say⟳, a large highway. You are trying to attract⟳ that kind of person. People are going to the cottage, possibly, up and down the highway, and you are trying to get⟳ them off the road so you can move⟳ your inventory. Of course, moving that store to attract⟳ that kind of business disattracts business from the local community.”

“For many located in central cities, the notion of economic migration is distant, despite economic theories of the nation as a marketplace with locales alternately attracting and disattracting workers.”

“I can kid around with guys, joke, but I don’t feel⟳ that attraction, and even imagining it, imagining the attraction and thinking about being with a man as with a woman, I feel⟳ repelled, “disattracted.” […] Because when you asked, I could truly say⟳ that I feel⟳ attracted to myself. But it’s ironic, because I sincerely feel⟳ that I’m dis'''attracted to another male. It’s a paradox.”

“I am getting disattracted. Rishab Nautiyal is repelled.”

“Although at present⟳ this has become⟳ of much less interest⟳, unions are still not seen as simply competitors in terms of wage claims but they still have⟳ different approaches, which attract⟳ or disattract workers.”

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