Word Finder - aversion

definition

Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike.

example

Due to her aversion to the outdoors she complained throughout the entire camping trip.

synonyms

• antipathy
• disinclination
• reluctance

definition

An object of dislike or repugnance.

example

Pushy salespeople are a major aversion of mine.

synonyms

• abomination

definition

The act of turning away from an object.

He was remarkable for ugliness, and was an object of aversion to his parents.

You have any aversion to pasta?

No state was regarded by him with more aversion than Austria.

Dean wasn't sure if it was her natural aversion to anything involving law enforcement or concern for her boss's future.

The prominent features of his character seem to have been cunning, ambition and avarice, combined with want of courage and aversion from effort.

We cannot wonder that the whole nation was stirred to the very depths, or that they strengthened the aversion of the king, of Windham and other important personages in the government against the plans of Pitt.

First of all, he developed an aversion to meat.

On Mary's recovery, her aversion to Darnley, and her confidence in Bothwell, were unconcealed; and, early in September, she admitted Lethington to her presence.

He is typically English in his reverence for facts, whether facts of sense or of living consciousness, in his aversion from abstract speculation and verbal reasoning, in his suspicion of mysticism, in his calm reasonableness, and in his ready submission to truth, even when truth was incapable of being fully reduced to system by man.

As kids get closer to the teen years, many develop an aversion to school.

Bismarck admitted the aversion of the population to Prussian rule, but said that everything would be done to conciliate the people.

He early showed a remarkable aptitude for learning, but had a pronounced aversion for pure rhetoric. His studies at the Ecole des Chartes (where he took first place both on entering and leaving) and at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes did much to develop his critical faculty, and the historical method taught and practised at these establishments brought home to him the dignity of history, which thenceforth became his ruling passion.

Such ritual use of oil as a o payls or seal may have been suggested in old religions by the practice of keeping wine fresh in jars and amphorae by pouring on a top layer of oil; for the spoiling of wine was attributed to the action of demons of corruption, against whom many ancient formulae of aversion or exorcism still exist.

The aversion to them which he expressed showed thus early an innate disposition to rebel against empty verbal reasoning.

Throughout his life he was much interested in politics, and though his temperamental indolence and his aversion for public life often prevented his accepting office, he exercised as a contributor, to the press and through his friendships, a powerful political influence, especially in New England.

Cotton seed in those days was the object of so much aversion that the planter burned it or threw it into running streams, as was most convenient.

Augustus also entered into communication with the Huguenots; but his aversion to foreign complications prevailed, and the incipient friendship with the elector palatine soon gave way to serious dislike.

The aversion to Athens best serves to explain the unpatriotic attitude which Thebes displayed during the great Persian invasion.

She seems to have had an aversion to washing either her person or her clothes.

Whether from sympathy with the persecuted or aversion to the persecutors, he cast in his lot with the former and after two unsuccessful attempts at settlement assisted the fugitives in forming a colony on the island of Aquidnek (Rhode Island), procured from the Indians through.

The profound horror with which the Christian's conception of a suffering as well as an avenging divinity tended to make him regard all condemnable acts was tinged with a sentiment which we may perhaps describe as a ceremonial aversion moralized - the aversion, that is, to foulness or impurity.

It thus affirmed the relativity of good and evil in a double sense; good and evil, for any individual citizen, may from one point of view be defined as the objects respectively of his desire and his aversion; from another, they may be said to be determined for him by his sovereign.

Have you any aversion to killing your own kind?

Usually, they will look away - ' gaze aversion ' - which can lead to the parent feeling rejected.

They know how to change their ideas - but how do you change a deeply felt aversion or hatred that wells up from inside?

I've got real life, thanks Monday, September 12th, 2005 I have an increasing aversion to ' real life drama ' .

There is still a strong aversion by many in Parliament to embryonic stem cell research.

I have a particular aversion to doing the school run by car.

Both regarded chiliasm with aversion.

O'Connell, having long before attained an undisputed and easy ascendancy, stood at the head of this great national movement; but it will be observed that, having been controlled from first to last by himself and the priesthood, it had little in common with the mob rule and violence which he had never ceased to regard with aversion.

The majority of the pigs did not show aversion to the presence of 30 per cent carbon dioxide in air.

However the Scottish Executive approach demands transfer, presumably on the grounds of ideological aversion to the public sector.

So how do we stop excessive risk aversion, but still protect people?

With the absence of any physical shape to connect their signs, the term itself suggests a state of natural aversion.

I feel pretty sure there is a growing general aversion to the appendage of author's name, except in cases where necessary.

The affair was driven by a culture of risk aversion rather than by timeless human greed.

The corvid work with condition taste aversion is also looking rather good.

Klaus claimed he was a German noble, and he certainly had a nobleman 's aversion to work.

The favour shown to Bothwell had not yet given occasion for scandal, though his character as an adventurous libertine was as notable as his reputation for military hardihood; but as the summer advanced his insolence increased with his influence at court and the general aversion of his rivals.

The phenomena of feeling, of desire and aversion, of love and hatred, of fear and revenge, and the perception of external relations manifested in the life of brutes, imply, not only through the analogy which they display to the human faculties, but likewise from all that we can learn or conjecture of their particular nature, the superadded existence of a principle distinct from the mere mechanism of material bodies.

Mr. Rucastle told me in private that the reason why she had left them was that she had an unreasoning aversion to her stepmother.

It's simply that aversion to failure is hardwired into our culture, and this cultural influence affects decisions founders make when things don't go according to plan.

Some woman may also have a heightened sense of smell, which causes an aversion to certain foods.

These Chinese scholars made no secret of their contempt for Buddhism, and in their turn they were held in aversion by the Buddhists and the Japanese scholars (wagakusha), so that the second half of the i8th century was a time of perpetual wrangling and controversy.

Early Greek religion recognized a class of gods of Aversion and Riddance, airorpoiratot and' azr arroµorafot.

Max Muller says (speaking of the Greeks), " their poets had an instinctive aversion to everything excessive or monstrous, yet they would relate of their gods what would make the most savage of Red Indians creep and shudder " - stories, that is, of the cannibalism of Demeter, of the mutilation of Uranus, the cannibalism of Cronus, who swallowed his own children, and the like.

Thus, debt aversion deters entry into higher education.

The usual concept of risk aversion generated through utility curvature seems inappropriate for modeling loss aversion.

The former approach reveals comparatively high levels of inequality aversion (implying a high level of income weighting) in contrast to the latter.

Outpatient electric shock aversion therapy lasted for weeks or in some cases up to two years.