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aversion
/əˈvɝʒən/
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What does aversion mean?
noun
- Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike often without any conscious reasoning.
- An object of dislike or repugnance.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (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.”
A settled aversion to manual labor was strongly developed in the boy as he grew older, which his father considered simple laziness.
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But one among them was remembered in later times as having had a peculiar aversion to the anthropomorphic conceptions of his fellows.
In regard to this discourse, I should only like to point out that Nietzsche had a particular aversion to the word “suicide”—self-murder.
At the beginning she was far from sharing Michel's ideas, and for some of them she felt an aversion which amounted to horror.