Aversion

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A fixed, intense dislike; repugnance: formed an aversion to crowds.
  • n. The cause or object of such a feeling.
  • n. The avoidance of a thing, situation, or behavior because it has been associated with an unpleasant or painful stimulus.
  • n. Obsolete The act of turning away or averting.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike.
  • n. An object of dislike or repugnance.
  • n. The act of turning away from an object.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A turning away.
  • n. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance.
  • n. The object of dislike or repugnance.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A turning away; a change of application.
  • n. The act of averting or warding off
  • n. An averted state of the mind or feelings; opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed or habitual dislike; antipathy: used absolutely or with to, sometimes with from, for, or toward.
  • n. Opposition or contrariety of nature: applied to inanimate substances.
  • n. A cause of dislike; an object of repugnance.
  • n. Synonyms Hatred, Dislike, Antipathy (see antipathy); unwillingness, shrinking, hesitation, disrelish, distaste, detestation.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a feeling of intense dislike
  • n. the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away
  • Antonym
    liking    love    longing   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    dislike    shunning    turning away    dodging    avoidance   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    disgust    repugnance    antipathy    dislike    disinclination    reluctance    repulsion    dyspathy    nausea    horror   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Persian    aspersion    conversion    dispersion    diversion    excursion    immersion    incursion    inversion    perversion   
    Same Context
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