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In social psychology, the boomerang effect, also known as "reactance", refers to the unintended consequences of an attempt to persuade resulting in the adoption of an opposing position instead. It is sometimes also referred to as "the theory of psychological reactance ", stating that attempts to restrict a person's freedom often produce an ...
boomerang; bunyip [4] coolamon (wooden curved bowl used to carry food or baby) corroboree; dilli (a bag) [4] commonly, and tautologically, as "dilly-bag" djanga; gibber (a stone) [4] esp. in gibber plain=stony desert; gin (now a racially offensive word for an Aboriginal woman) gunyah; humpy (a hut) kurdaitcha; lubra (now a racially offensive ...
Boomerang effect may refer to: Boomerang effect (psychology) in social psychology; Imperial boomerang in sociology and political science; Unintended consequences in ...
The term antonym (and the related antonymy) is commonly taken to be synonymous with opposite, but antonym also has other more restricted meanings. Graded (or gradable) antonyms are word pairs whose meanings are opposite and which lie on a continuous spectrum (hot, cold).
Color magazine (lighting), also called a boomerang, used to change the colors of a spotlight Flying Boomerangs , an Australian rules football team Boomerang Range , a narrow mountain range on the western side of the Skelton Glacier and Skelton Névé, Antarctica
Loaded language [a] is rhetoric used to influence an audience by using words and phrases with strong connotations.This type of language is very often made vague to more effectively invoke an emotional response and/or exploit stereotypes.
In Western culture the Boomerang Generation refers to the generation of young adults graduating from high school and college in the 21st century. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] They are so named for the percentage of whom choose to share a home with their parents after previously living on their own—thus boomeranging back to their parents' residence.
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. A modern english thesaurus. A thesaurus (pl.: thesauri or thesauruses), sometimes called a synonym dictionary or dictionary of synonyms, is a reference work which arranges words by their meanings (or in simpler terms, a book where one can find different words with similar meanings to other words), [1] [2] sometimes as a hierarchy of broader and narrower terms ...