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Definition: Aversion Therapy |
Aversion TherapyNoun1. Any technique of behavior modification that uses unpleasant stimuli in a controlled fashion to alter behavior in a therapeutic way; primarily used for alcoholism or drug abuse (but with little success). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Medicine | Negative conditioning, consisting of pairing the unwanted symptom or behavior(e. g. alcoholism). . . with painful or unpleasant stimuli until the undesirable behavior is suppressed. Source: European Union. (references) |
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Crosswords: Aversion Therapy |
| Specialty definitions using "aversion therapy": behaviour therapy, behavioural therapy ♦ nutrition educator ♦ WEIGHT-REDUCTION SPECIALIST. (references) |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
aversion therapy | 15 |
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| Language | Translations for "aversion therapy"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||
Danish | aversionsbehandling (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Dutch | aversion therapy (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment), aversietherapie (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
French | traitement d'aversion (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment), thérapie d'aversion (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment), cure de dégout (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment), cure de déconditionnement (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
German | Aversionsbehandlung (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Greek | θεραπεία αποστροφής (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aversionay erapythay tratamento de aversão (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment). (various references) tratamiento de aversión (aversion conditioning, aversion treatment). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-h-i-n-o-p-r-r-s-t-v-y" | |
-3 letters: arsenopyrite, preservation. | |
-4 letters: erythrosine, hypertonias, hypotensive, personative, praetorians, reparations, reservation. | |
-5 letters: anastrophe, antiheroes, antiherpes, erythrosin, evaporates, evaporites, hypertonia, interphase, interposer, narratives, operatives, overpraise, overprints, overstrain, overtrains, parathions, perversion, perversity, praetorian, preharvest, prehistory, pretorians, privateers, proteinase, protensive, pyrethrins, ratepayers, reparation, reparative, resorptive, separation, separative, venerators, veratrines, veterinary. | |
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