reactions
- 1Plural of reaction.
The audience's reactions ranged from laughter to stunned silence.
Several chemical reactions release heat as they proceed.
Note
The plural adds a plain -s and carries every meaning of the singular: responses to an event, chemical changes in which substances combine or break apart, and, online, the emoji people attach to a post (a message with dozens of reactions). The political meaning sits less easily in the plural. Reactionary politics is a mass idea, so "reactions" there points to separate periods of resurgence rather than to the outlook itself.
reactions is a form of reaction
reaction, noun: What someone does, says, or feels in answer to something that has happened. Full entry
- Forms
- reactionreactions plural
- Spelling
- reaction → reactions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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