About The Word Aversion
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Aversion
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What's The Definition Of Aversion?
[n] the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away; "averting her gaze meant that she was angry"
[n] a feeling of intense dislike Synonyms | Synonyms for Aversion: antipathy | averting | distaste Related Terms | Find terms related to Aversion: abhorrence | abomination | allergy | anathema | Anglophobia | animosity | antagonism | antipathy | anti-Semitism | averseness | backwardness | bad books | bigotry | cold sweat | creeping flesh | cursoriness | despitefulness | detestation | disagreement | disfavor | disgust | disinclination | dislike | disliking | disobedience | displeasure | disrelish | dissatisfaction | dissent | distaste | dread | enmity | execration | fear | foot-dragging | fractiousness | grudging consent | grudgingness | hate | hatred | horror | hostility | indisposedness | indisposition | indocility | intractableness | lack of enthusiasm | lack of zeal | loathing | malevolence | malice | malignity | misandry | misanthropy | misogyny | mortal horror | mutinousness | nausea | nolition | obstinacy | odium | opposition | peeve | perfunctoriness | pet peeve | phobia | race hatred | racism | recalcitrance | recalcitrancy | refractoriness | refusal | reluctance | renitence | renitency | repellency | repugnance | repulsion | resistance | revulsion | Russophobia | shuddering | slowness | spite | spitefulness | stubbornness | sulk | sulkiness | sulks | sullenness | unenthusiasm | unwillingness | vials of hate | vials of wrath | xenophobia See Also | avoidance | dislike | dodging | shunning | turning away Aversion In Webster's Dictionary \A*ver"sion\, n. [L. aversio: cf. F. aversion. See
{Avert}.]
1. A turning away. [Obs.]
Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. --Bp.
Atterbury.
2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike;
antipathy; disinclination; reluctance.
Mutual aversion of races. --Prescott.
His rapacity had made him an object of general
aversion. --Macaulay.
Note: It is now generally followed by to before the object.
[See {Averse}.] Sometimes towards and for are found;
from is obsolete.
A freeholder is bred with an aversion to
subjection. --Addison.
His aversion towards the house of York. --Bacon.
It is not difficult for a man to see that a
person has conceived an aversion for him.
--Spectator.
The Khasias . . . have an aversion to milk. --J.
D. Hooker.
3. The object of dislike or repugnance.
Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire. --Pope.
Syn: Antipathy; dislike; repugnance; disgust. See {Dislike}.
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