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noun
1.
a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, repugnance, or antipathy (usually followed by to): a strong aversion to snakes and spiders.
2.
a cause or object of dislike; person or thing that causes antipathy: His pet aversion is guests who are always late.
3.
Obsolete. the act of averting; a turning away or preventing.
Origin:
1590–1600; < Latin āversiōn- (stem of āversiō), equivalent to āvers(us) turned away (see averse) + -iōn- -ion
1590–1600; < Latin āversiōn- (stem of āversiō), equivalent to āvers(us) turned away (see averse) + -iōn- -ion
Synonyms
1. distaste, abhorrence, disgust. Aversion, antipathy, loathing connote strong dislike or detestation. Aversion is an unreasoning desire to avoid that which displeases, annoys, or offends: an aversion to (or toward) cats. Antipathy is a distaste, dislike, or disgust toward something: an antipathy toward (or for) braggarts. Loathing connotes a combination of hatred and disgust, or detestation: a loathing for (or toward) hypocrisy, a criminal.
1. distaste, abhorrence, disgust. Aversion, antipathy, loathing connote strong dislike or detestation. Aversion is an unreasoning desire to avoid that which displeases, annoys, or offends: an aversion to (or toward) cats. Antipathy is a distaste, dislike, or disgust toward something: an antipathy toward (or for) braggarts. Loathing connotes a combination of hatred and disgust, or detestation: a loathing for (or toward) hypocrisy, a criminal.
Antonyms
1. predilection.
1. predilection.
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Example Sentences
- Some people have an aversion to killing anything, and some people have an aversion to guns.
- Ranchers have an understandable aversion to predators eating their cattle.
- The memory test the scientists used in their experiments, called conditioned taste aversion, is familiar to everyone.
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Word Origin & History
aversion
1650s, "mental attitude of repugnance," from L. aversionem (nom. aversio), noun of action from aversus "turned away, backwards, behind, hostile," pp. of avertere (see avert). Earlier in the lit. sense of "a turning away from" (1590s). Aversion therapy in psychology is from 1950.
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Medical Dictionary
aversion a·ver·sion (ə-vûr'zhən, -shən)
n.
A fixed, intense dislike; repugnance, as of crowds.
A feeling of extreme repugnance accompanied by avoidance or rejection.
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