Definition of Aversions. Meaning of Aversions. Synonyms of Aversions

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Definition of Aversions

Aversion
Aversion A*ver"sion, n. [L. aversio: cf. F. aversion. See Avert.] 1. A turning away. [Obs.] Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. --Bp. Atterbury. 2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance. Mutual aversion of races. --Prescott. His rapacity had made him an object of general aversion. --Macaulay. Note: It is now generally followed by to before the object. [See Averse.] Sometimes towards and for are found; from is obsolete. A freeholder is bred with an aversion to subjection. --Addison. His aversion towards the house of York. --Bacon. It is not difficult for a man to see that a person has conceived an aversion for him. --Spectator. The Khasias . . . have an aversion to milk. --J. D. Hooker. 3. The object of dislike or repugnance. Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire. --Pope. Syn: Antipathy; dislike; repugnance; disgust. See Dislike.

Meaning of Aversions from wikipedia

- aversion Inequity aversion Loss aversion Risk aversion Taste aversion Work aversion Aversion may also refer to: Aversion therapy Aversion (film) Dvesha (Buddhism)...
- Addictive Aversions, by Alfredo de Palchi, is a book of erotic and anti-erotic poems written originally in Italian under the title Le Viziose Avversioni...
- inhibition. Conditioned taste aversion is often used in laboratories to study gustation and learning in rats. Aversions can be developed to odors as well...
- Inequity aversion (IA) is the preference for fairness and resistance to incidental inequalities. The social sciences that study inequity aversion include...
- In economics and finance, risk aversion is the tendency of people to prefer outcomes with low uncertainty to those outcomes with high uncertainty, even...
- In cognitive science and behavioral economics, loss aversion refers to a cognitive bias in which the same situation is perceived as worse if it is framed...
- The Aversion Project was a medical torture programme in South Africa led by Aubrey Levin during apartheid. The project identified **** soldiers and conscripts...
- well as promising outcomes such as aversions to the sight, taste, and smell of the drug. It is unknown whether aversion therapy, in the form of rapid smoking...
- Food aversion may refer to: Anorexia nervosa, an eating disorder in which people avoid eating due to concerns about body weight or body image Food neophobia...
- In decision theory and economics, ambiguity aversion (also known as uncertainty aversion) is a preference for known risks over unknown risks. An ambiguity-averse...