different between counterattracting vs counterattraction

English

Etymology

counterattract + -ing

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ka?nt????t?akt??/

Adjective

counterattracting (not comparable)

1. (rare) Serving to counterattract.
   • 1969: Mary Baker Eddy, Christian Science Sentinel, volume 71, page 970 (The Christian Science Publishing Society)

     There are no counterattracting or counteracting forces in God or in His universe, including man.

   • 1992: Evelyn Gajowski, The Art of Loving: Female Subjectivity and Male Discursive Traditions in Shakespeare’s Tragedies, page 112 (University of Delaware Press; ?ISBN, 9780874133981)

     His emotional dependency on her is matched and balanced by her dependency on him in a continuous, reciprocal, attracting and counterattracting, responsive and counter-responsive interrelationship.

Verb

counterattracting

1. present participle of counterattract

English

Etymology

counter- +? attraction

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?ka?nt????t?ak??n/

Noun

counterattraction (plural counterattractions)

1. Something that vies for the attention of a person or thing in competition with something else; a rival for preference.
   • 1956, January 31^st: Alan Alexander Milne; quoted in:
   • 1988: James B. Simpson, Simpson’s Contemporary Quotations, ? 4,393 (Houghton Mifflin, ?ISBN

     The Old Testament is responsible for more atheism, agnosticism, disbelief?—?call it what you will?—?than any book ever written; it has emptied more churches than all the counterattractions of cinema, motor bicycle and golf course.

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