centripetence

See also: centripétence

English

Alternative forms

• centripetency

Noun

centripetence (uncountable)

1. 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.