Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A tendency to fly off from the center; centrifugal force or tendency.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The property or quality of being centrifugal.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The property or quality of being centrifugal.

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Examples

  • Tolerance, submission, patriotism so called, brotherly love so named -- all these things were to come later, as they have ever done in the development of communities, builded mainly upon the foundation of individual aggressiveness and individual centrifugence.

    The Girl at the Halfway House A Story of the Plains Emerson Hough 1890

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