centripetence

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centripetence (uncountable)

  1. A tendency towards a center
    • 1858, Ralph Waldo Emerson, The Natural Method of Mental Philosophy:
      […] 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.
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