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aversion

aversion

2 7.0
Turning your eyes or head away from something
  • noun
  • /əˈvɜrʒən/
: mirada esquiva
  • He felt a sudden aversion to the food after it made him sick.
  • aversion learning
  • avoidance and aversion
  • aversion to poverty

Examples

  • 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

avoidance
vsaversion
40 3.7

Keeping away from something or stopping it from happening

is a physical movement of gaze or body rather than general distancing
turning away
vsaversion
4 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
averting
vsaversion
1 6.1

Turning your eyes or face away from something

has the same meaning but uses different wording

Antonyms

∞ 1.0

A feeling of wanting to know more about something

attraction
  • Specialized
9 2.8

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

Compounds

aversion therapy
  • Specialized
4 7.7

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

Surface Forms

aversion singular
aversions plural

Morphology

aversion = avert (semi-transparent) = a + vers + ion

The connection to 'avert' is clear, but the specific meaning of 'turning oneself or one's gaze away' is not a standard derivation for all learners.

Etymology

Aversion comes from Latin parts ab- 'away' and vertere 'to turn'. It originally meant a physical 'turning away', like turning your eyes or head from something, which is still how we use it for that action.