0 a strong feeling among a group of people in reaction to a change or recent events in society or politics: --
the backlash against feminism
the 60s backlash against bourgeois materialism
1 a strong, negative reaction to something, esp. to change: --
As the power of biotechnology has exploded over the past decade, it has evoked an enormous backlash of opposition.
High accuracy is most often achieved solely by designing the robot to be stiff and having little or no backlash.
And that backlash still has value for us.
In fact, we are not sure where backlash begins and ends and what the unique characteristics of backlash are.
In dynamic terms, minorities may fear that the open countermajoritarianism of supermajority rules will eventually produce a public backlash.
This lack of clarity makes it a formidable task to distinguish concepts and raises doubts about the use of backlash as a conceptual tool.
Such a development could have been perceived as a challenge to divine subjectivity and would create a strong backlash.
This framing, in turn, has opened the door to counter-claims which marshal (selfdescribed) scientific evidence and which have contributed to a backlash against survivors.
