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aversion

/əˈvɝʒən/

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What does aversion mean?

noun

  1. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike often without any conscious reasoning.
  2. An object of dislike or repugnance.
More meanings (1)

noun

  1. (obsolete) The act of turning away from an object.

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IPA pronunciation

/əˈvɝʒən/

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“I don’t know what is the matter with me,” said Roderick, “but I have an insurmountable aversion to taking your money.”
Henry JamesRoderick HudsonProject Gutenberg ebook #176
A settled aversion to manual labor was strongly developed in the boy as he grew older, which his father considered simple laziness.
Joel BentonA Unique Story of a Marvellous Career: Life of Hon. Phineas T. BarnumProject Gutenberg ebook #1576
More book examples (3)
But one among them was remembered in later times as having had a peculiar aversion to the anthropomorphic conceptions of his fellows.
Henry Smith Williams; Edward Huntington WilliamsA History of Science — Volume 1Project Gutenberg ebook #1705
In regard to this discourse, I should only like to point out that Nietzsche had a particular aversion to the word “suicide”—self-murder.
Friedrich Wilhelm NietzscheThus Spake Zarathustra: A Book for All and NoneTranslated by Thomas CommonProject Gutenberg ebook #1998
At the beginning she was far from sharing Michel's ideas, and for some of them she felt an aversion which amounted to horror.
René DoumicGeorge Sand: Some Aspects of Her Life and WritingsTranslated by Alys HallardProject Gutenberg ebook #138