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.
Aversion
A strong dislike or disinclination
They made plain their aversion to the use of force
Adversion
(obsolete) An adverting or turning towards; attention.
Aversion
A fixed, intense dislike; repugnance
Formed an aversion to crowds.
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).
Aversion
The avoidance of a thing, situation, or behavior because it has been associated with an unpleasant or painful stimulus.
Aversion
The act or fact of averting
The aversion of a disaster.
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.
Aversion
An object of dislike or repugnance.
Pushy salespeople are a major aversion of mine.
Aversion
(obsolete) The act of turning away from an object.
Aversion
A turning away.
Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness.
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.
Aversion
The object of dislike or repugnance.
Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire.
Aversion
A feeling of intense dislike
Aversion
The act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away;
Averting her gaze meant that she was angry
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