aversion

Examples

• All

• But at this point, the self doesn't have to have that anxiety or fear or aversion, right?

• Equanimity embraces the loved and the unloved, the agreeable and the disagreeable, and pleasure and pain; it eliminates clinging and aversion.

  Academic text (1993)

• So to put it simply, loss aversion stops us from starting things that we ought to.

• Taste aversion learning took place in the home cage.

  Academic text (1993)

• So let's suppose that risk aversion or the curvature of utility is very high.

• And this is the concept of loss aversion, or which economists sometimes refer to as the endowment effect.

• The concept of evil signifies the necessary object of the faculty of aversion according to a principle of reason. We can explain this in a parallel manner.

  Academic text (2018)

• Lana imagines herself winning the Pulitzer Prize, and is willing to subject herself to aversion therapy.

  Blog text (17)

• Aversions to slugs, snails, and crawling insects are primarily due to disgust sensitivity (Matchett & Davey, 1991).

  Academic text (1999)

• Her aversion to crowded places made her leave the party early.

Synonyms

A

avoidance

vsaversion

39 3.7

Keeping away from something or stopping it from happening

is a physical movement of gaze or body rather than general distancing

T

turning away

vsaversion

11 5.8

Choosing to avoid someone or to stop something from happening

is a bodily action moving gaze or face aside rather than blocking events

A

averting

vsaversion

6.1

Turning your eyes or face away from something

has the same meaning but uses different wording

Antonyms

I

interest

∞ 1.0

A feeling of wanting to know more about something

A

attraction

• Specialized

96 2.8

A force that pulls objects toward each other, like gravity or magnets

Compounds

A

aversion therapy

• Specialized

3 7.7

A treatment that uses unpleasant experiences to stop unwanted habits like addiction

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology