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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Aversion \A*ver"sion\, n. [L. aversio: cf. F. aversion. See Avert.]
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A turning away. [Obs.]
Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness.
--Bp. Atterbury. -
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 Sometimes towards and for are found; from is obsolete.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. -
The object of dislike or repugnance.
Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire.
--Pope.Syn: Antipathy; dislike; repugnance; disgust. See Dislike.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"a turning away from," 1590s; figurative sense of "mental attitude of repugnance" is from 1650s, from Middle French aversion and directly from Latin aversionem (nominative aversio), noun of action from past participle stem of aversus "turned away, backwards, behind, hostile," itself past participle of avertere (see avert). Earlier in the literal sense of "a turning away from" (1590s). Aversion therapy in psychology is from 1950.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike. 2 An object of dislike or repugnance. 3 (context obsolete English) The act of turning away from an object.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Aversion is a 2009 horror film about a private investigator who discovers too late that the woman he is hired to follow is often possessed by a demon.
Under the direction of GF Roberts the original script, written by Roberts and Ted Spencer, combines demonic possession with science fiction. The film is somewhat retro in nature because it was shot on photographic film and that over ninety percent of the effects are in camera. The tone of Aversion differs from many contemporary movies by providing some comic relief throughout.
The on-set special effects were provided by Monster in My Closet FX under the supervision of Jeremy Selenfriend. Other crew members included assistant director Sabrina Simone, Jared Noe and D Garcia.
Aversion means opposition or repugnance. The following are different forms of aversion:
- Ambiguity aversion
- Brand aversion
- Dissent aversion in the United States of America
- Endowment effect, also known as divestiture aversion
- Inequity aversion
- Loss aversion
- Risk aversion
- Taste aversion
- Travel aversion
- Work aversion
Aversion may also refer to:
- Aversion therapy
- Aversion (film)
- Dvesha (Buddhism), a Buddhist term that translates to aversion
Usage examples of "aversion".
Vatican, reminding her of her mother and his aversion to the Catholic faith, but she gave no indication of this.
Having watched Father Edmund disappear from sight, Katherine once again fixed Blake with her questioning eyes, sensing his aversion to the priest.
I knew of your aversion to anyone of that faith, and because of the resurgence of hate in the country against any Catholic, I believed it was in my own.
The thorough-paced Puritans were distinguishable by the sourness and austerity of their manners, and by their aversion to all pleasure and society.
Though some persons of family and distinction were still attached to the Catholic superstition, it is certain that the numbers of that sect did not amount to the fortieth part of the nation: and the frequent panics to which men, during this period, were so subject on account of the Catholics, were less the effects of fear, than of extreme rage and aversion entertained against them.
While the disorders of the army were yet in their infancy, he kept at a distance, lest his counterfeit aversion might throw a damp upon them, or his secret encouragement beget suspicion in the parliament.
He had a fixt aversion to London, and to all public places, and had constantly some disaster to relate of every visit he had accidentally made to them.
They had their rise in a total aversion to reflection, a wish to distinguish himself from his retired, and, he thought, unfashionable relations, and an unfortunate coalition with some unprincipled young men, who, because flashy and gay, could lead him to whatever they proposed.
Lord Newford, to whom she had conceived a strong aversion, she declined dancing.
I have an instinctive aversion to those cold, haughty, drawing-back characters, who are made up of the egotism of looking out for something that is wholly devoted to them, and that has not a breath to breathe that is not a sigh for their perfections.
Eugenia said, if, indeed, she could not conquer her aversion, she saw no way to elude the baronet, but by openly confessing her repugnance, in the conversation he demanded.
Rooms, imagined the Major had now influenced her to an utter aversion of him.
The slothful effeminacy of the former exposed them to the contempt, the sullen ferociousness of the latter excited the aversion, of the conquerors.
Their peculiar distinctions of days, of meats, and a variety of trivial though burdensome observances, were so many objects of disgust and aversion for the other nations, to whose habits and prejudices they were diametrically opposite.
It may be observed, that, in this instance likewise, the situation of the first Christians coincided very happily with their religious scruples, and that their aversion to an active life contributed rather to excuse them from the service, than to exclude them from the honors, of the state and army.