Adversion vs. Aversion — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Adversion and Aversion
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Adversion
A tendency or wish to avoid someone or something.
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Aversion
A strong dislike or disinclination
They made plain their aversion to the use of force
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Adversion
(obsolete) An adverting or turning towards; attention.
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Aversion
A fixed, intense dislike; repugnance
Formed an aversion to crowds.
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Adversion
A turning towards; attention.
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Aversion
The cause or object of such a feeling
"I jumped up, and ran out of the room ... because a newspaper writer is my aversion" (Fanny Kemble).
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Aversion
The avoidance of a thing, situation, or behavior because it has been associated with an unpleasant or painful stimulus.
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Aversion
The act or fact of averting
The aversion of a disaster.
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Aversion
Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike often without any conscious reasoning.
Due to her aversion to the outdoors she complained throughout the entire camping trip.
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Aversion
An object of dislike or repugnance.
Pushy salespeople are a major aversion of mine.
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Aversion
(obsolete) The act of turning away from an object.
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Aversion
A turning away.
Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness.
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Aversion
Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance.
Mutual aversion of races.
His rapacity had made him an object of general aversion.
A freeholder is bred with an aversion to subjection.
His aversion towards the house of York.
It is not difficult for a man to see that a person has conceived an aversion for him.
The Khasias . . . have an aversion to milk.
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Aversion
The object of dislike or repugnance.
Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire.
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Aversion
A feeling of intense dislike
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Aversion
The act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away;
Averting her gaze meant that she was angry
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