Centrifugence

/sɛnˈtrɪfjudʒəns/ noun

Definition

The quality or state of being centrifugal; the tendency to move or act in an outward direction from a center.

Etymology

From centrifugal adjective plus abstract noun suffix -ence. Created in the 18th-19th centuries as scientists needed precise terminology for describing rotational phenomena.

Kelly Says

This noun is so rarely used that most English speakers have never encountered it, yet it represents the kind of technical vocabulary explosion that happened when physics became a rigorous science and needed exact words for exact concepts.

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