reaction

noun

1 his reaction had bewildered her | the reaction from listeners was encouraging:

response;

answer, reply, rejoinder, retort, riposte;

feedback;

informal comeback;

US, informal clapback.

2 during the 1960s there was a reaction against this kind of sociology:

backlash, counteraction, recoil.

3 the forces of reaction which spring up in the face of change:

conservatism, ultra-conservatism, the right, the right wing, the extreme right;

counter-revolution, revanchism.