aversion

See also: Aversion and aversión

English

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin āversiō, āversiōnem. Doublet of aversio.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /əˈvɜːʒən/, /əˈvɜːʃən/
• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /əˈvɝʒən/
• (MLE) IPA^(key): /əˈvɜʒən/

• Audio (Southern England):

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• Hyphenation: aver‧sion

Noun

aversion (countable and uncountable, plural aversions)

1. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike often without any conscious reasoning.

   Synonyms: antipathy, disinclination, reluctance

   Due to her aversion to the outdoors she complained throughout the entire camping trip.

   Live with aversion to classic men's wear, likely die with aversion to classic men's wear.

   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169:

     The other patients in the ward, all but the Texan, shrank from him with a tenderhearted aversion from the moment they set eyes on him the morning after the night he had been sneaked in.

2. An object of dislike or repugnance.

   Synonym: abomination

   Pushy salespeople are a major aversion of mine.

3. (obsolete) The act of turning away from an object.

Derived terms

• ambiguity aversion
• aversion therapy
• change aversion
• chemoaversion
• photoaversion
• risk aversion
• uncertainty aversion

Related terms

• averse
• avert

Translations

fixed dislike

• Arabic: نُفُور m (nufūr), كُرْه m (kurh), كَرَاهِيَة f (karāhiya), مَقْت m (maqt)
• Belarusian: агі́да f (ahída), абры́да f (abrýda), непрыя́знасць f (njepryjáznascʹ), антыпа́тыя f (antypátyja)
• Bengali: ঘৃণা (bn) (ghrina), নফরত (nofrot)
• Bulgarian: отвраще́ние (bg) n (otvrašténie), неприя́зън (bg) f (neprijázǎn), омра́за (bg) f (omráza), антипа́тия (bg) f (antipátija)
• Catalan: aversió (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 厭惡 / 厌恶 (zh) (yànwù)

• Czech: averze (cs), odpor (cs) m, nechuť (cs) f
• Danish: aversion c, modvilje c
• Dutch: afkeer (nl) m, aversie (nl) f
• Finnish: inho (fi), vastahakoisuus (fi), vastenmielisyys (fi)
• French: aversion (fr) f
• Georgian: არაკეთილგანწყობილება (araḳetilganc̣q̇obileba), ანტიპათია (anṭiṗatia)
• German: Abneigung (de) f, Vorbehalt (de) m, Widerwillen (de) m, Aversion (de) f

  Alemannic German: Abber m

• Greek: απέχθεια (el) f (apéchtheia), αποστροφή (el) f (apostrofí)
• Hebrew: סְלִידָה (he) f (slidá)
• Hindi: घृणा (hi) f (ghŕṇā)
• Hungarian: ellenszenv (hu), idegenkedés (hu), irtózás (hu)
• Indonesian: aversi (id)
• Irish: drogall m
• Italian: avversione (it)
• Japanese: 嫌悪 (ja) (けんお, ken'o), 厭悪 (ja) (えんお, en'o)
• Korean: 혐오 (ko) (hyeomo), 염오 (yeomo)
• Latin: āversiō f
• Macedonian: о́дбивност f (ódbivnost), о́двратност f (ódvratnost), аве́рзија f (avérzija), антипа́тија f (antipátija)
• Māori: matakawa, ngākaukino, anuanu, konekone
• Polish: awersja (pl) f, niechęć (pl) f, odraza (pl) f
• Portuguese: aversão (pt) f
• Romanian: aversiune (ro) f
• Russian: отвраще́ние (ru) n (otvraščénije), неприя́тие (ru) n (neprijátije), неприя́знь (ru) f (neprijáznʹ), антипа́тия (ru) f (antipátija), омерзе́ние (ru) n (omerzénije)
• Sanskrit: अरुचि (sa) n (aruci), द्वेषस् (sa) n (dveṣas)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: avèrzija (sh) f, о̀тпор m

  Latin: avèrzija (sh) f, òtpor (sh) m

• Slovak: odpor m, averzia f
• Slovene: odpor (sl) m
• Spanish: aversión (es) f
• Swedish: aversion (sv), motvilja (sv)
• Tocharian B: ykāṃṣe
• Ukrainian: відра́за f (vidráza), оги́да (uk) f (ohýda), непри́язнь f (neprýjaznʹ), антипа́тія (uk) f (antypátija)

the object of dislike or repugnance

• Finnish: inhokki (fi)

a turning away

• Bulgarian: обръ́щане наза́д n (obrǎ́štane nazád)
• Finnish: kääntyminen poispäin
• Greek: αποστροφή (el) f (apostrofí)

See also

• adverse

Anagrams

• vairones, veraison

Danish

Etymology

From French aversion, from Latin āversiō.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [avæɐ̯ˈɕoˀn]

Noun

aversion c (singular definite aversionen, plural indefinite aversioner)

1. aversion, antipathy

   Synonyms: modvilje, antipati

Inflection

Declension of aversion

common gender	singular		plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	aversion	aversionen	aversioner	aversionerne
genitive	aversions	aversionens	aversioners	aversionernes

References

• “aversion” in Den Danske Ordbog

Finnish

Noun

aversion

1. genitive singular of aversio

Anagrams

• versiona

French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin āversiōnem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃/

• Audio:

  (file)

Noun

aversion f (plural aversions)

1. aversion

Further reading

• “aversion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

Swedish

Noun

aversion c

1. aversion

   Synonym: motvilja

Declension

Declension of aversion

		nominative	genitive
singular	indefinite	aversion	aversions
	definite	aversionen	aversionens
plural	indefinite	aversioner	aversioners
	definite	aversionerna	aversionernas

References

• “aversion”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “aversion”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “aversion”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)