aversive
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8.4
- adjective
- /əˈvɜrsɪv/
- The loud siren was so aversive that it made everyone cover their ears.
- aversive behavior
- aversive socialization
- aversive experience
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Watch on YouTubeOf course, it's a much less aversive technique than electricity.
- Of course, it's a much less aversive technique than electricity.
- It's like that's an aversive stimulus, It's an acid.
- We do something to someone that's aversive with the goal that they stop the behavior.
- And shame is a more powerfully aversive feeling.
- And that is something that is preventing you from recovering and bouncing back from these aversive events.
- Any fight with a narcissist is a dirty fight, and as a result, those fights can become really, really aversive over time.
- I spoke about the emotional reactivity to negative aversive events, but that's only one half of what we call the affective valence domain.
Examples
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Thus, all three of these variables are highly correlated with child aversive behavior.
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And I think if people got used to seeing that more, there wouldn't be such an aversive reaction.
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Of course, it's a much less aversive technique than electricity.
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The crying of babies is aversive to babies.
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We do something to someone that's aversive with the goal that they stop the behavior.
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Corporal punishment is an aversive intervention that is sometimes used with regular and special education students.
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Any fight with a narcissist is a dirty fight, and as a result, those fights can become really, really aversive over time.
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And that is something that is preventing you from recovering and bouncing back from these aversive events.
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The special education literature is replete with debates about the use of aversive forms of interventions.
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Corporal punishment can be one of the most aversive forms of punishment used by educators.
Academic text (1992)
Synonyms
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5.5
Causing strong dislike or disgust, like a very bad smell
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6.5
Showing little concern for other people's feelings
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5.0
Unfriendly in manner so people feel uncomfortable
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6.1
Causing strong dislike or disgust
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6.4
Causing strong dislike or disgust
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6.9
Making people feel strong dislike or disgust
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8.7
Making someone less likely to do something by showing bad results
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9.9
Causing people to feel unpleasant and want to stay away
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6.7
Causing a strong feeling of dislike or making people feel sick
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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8.0
Something unpleasant that makes a person or animal learn to stay away
- Specialized
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7.8
A way of learning that reduces a behavior by pairing it with something unpleasant
How Aversive
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Aversive comes from the Latin aversus, meaning 'turned away', and it shares the same root as aversion and averse. So something aversive makes you want to 'turn away' from it or avoid it because it is unpleasant.