centripetence
See also: centripétence
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- 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.