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Definition: Aversion |
AversionNoun1. A feeling of intense dislike. 2. The act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away; "averting her gaze meant that she was angry". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "aversion" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Etymology: Aversion \A*ver"sion\, noun. [Latin expression aversio: compare to the French expression aversion. See Avert.]. (Websters 1913) |
Synonyms: AversionSynonyms: antipathy (n), averting (n), distaste (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Dislike | Verb: mislike misrelish, dislike, disrelish; mind, object to; have rather not, would rather not, prefer not to, not care for; have a dislike for, conceive a dislike to, entertain a dislike for, take a dislike to, have an aversion to, have an aversion for; have no taste for, have no stomach for. |
Repugnance, disgust, queasiness, turn, nausea, loathing; averseness, aversation, aversion; abomination, antipathy, abhorrence, horror; mortal antipathy, rooted antipathy, mortal horror, rooted horror; hatred, detestation; hate; animosity; hydrophobia; canine madness; byssa, xenophobia. sickener; gall and wormwood; (unsavory); shuddering, cold sweat. | |
Hate | Repugnance; (dislike); misanthropy, demonophobia, gynephobia, negrophobia; odium, unpopularity; detestation, antipathy; object of hatred, object of execration; abomination, aversion, b_te noire; enemy; bitter pill; source of annoyance. |
Owe a grudge; bear spleen, bear a grudge, bear malice; (malevolence); conceive an aversion to, take a dislike to. | |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs. |
Richard Brinsley Sheridan | 'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
John Locke | 1690 | This slowness and aversion in the people to quit their old constitutions, has, in the many revolutions which have been seen in this kingdom, in this and former ages, still kept us to, or, after some interval of fruitless attempts, still brought us back again to our old legislative of king, lords and commons: and whatever provocations have made the crown be taken from some of our princes heads, they never carried the people so far as to place it in another line. (Second Treatise of Government) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | He had nothing but disdain, aversion, and disgust for all who had once overstepped the bounds of the law. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Annoyance and aversion. (references) | |
Mechanisms of weight loss with newer procedures, which may include both food aversion and malabsorption, have not been determined with certainty. (references) | ||
The mechanisms whereby surgical treatment produces weight reduction (i.e. malabsorption of nutrients, food aversion, decreased intake, altered metabolism) deserve further investigation. (references) | ||
Economic History | Japan | Japan's famous aversion to M&A activity is starting to fade, accelerated by the unwinding of extensive corporate cross-shareholding brought about by implementation of improved accounting standards. (references) |
Worker Rights | Singapore | In addition the widely held view that labor conflict would undermine the country's economic competitiveness and attractiveness to investors, and a cultural aversion to confrontation help to maintain a harmonious labor situation. (references) |
Guatemala | The requirement that 25 percent of the workers in a factory or business must be union members for collective bargaining to take place, lack of experience, and management's aversion to sharing power with workers also limit the practice of collective bargaining. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | TIGHTS, n. An habiliment of the stage designed to reinforce the general acclamation of the press agent with a particular publicity. Public attention was once somewhat diverted from this garment to Miss Lillian Russell's refusal to wear it, and many were the conjectures as to her motive, the guess of Miss Pauline Hall showing a high order of ingenuity and sustained reflection. It was Miss Hall's belief that nature had not endowed Miss Russell with beautiful legs. This theory was impossible of acceptance by the male understanding, but the conception of a faulty female leg was of so prodigious originality as to rank among the most brilliant feats of philosophical speculation! It is strange that in all the controversy regarding Miss Russell's aversion to tights no one seems to have thought to ascribe it to what was known among the ancients as "modesty." The nature of that sentiment is now imperfectly understood, and possibly incapable of exposition with the vocabulary that remains to us. The study of lost arts has, however, been recently revived and some of the arts themselves recovered. This is an epoch of renaissances, and there is ground for hope that the primitive "blush" may be dragged from its hiding-place amongst the tombs of antiquity and hissed on to the stage. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Aversion" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Aversion" is used about 196 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 196 | 21,868 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "aversion": aversion conditioning ♦ aversion for work ♦ aversion therapy ♦ aversion treatment ♦ conceive an aversion to ♦ one's chief aversion ♦ one's pet aversion ♦ pet aversion ♦ risk aversion ♦ take an aversion to smb.. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "aversion": aversion-therapy. | |
Ending with "aversion": flavour-aversion. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 |
sexual aversion disorder | 10 |
aversion | 8 |
aversion food | 8 |
aversion sexual | 6 |
aversion oral | 5 |
aversion risk | 5 |
taste aversion | 2 |
aversion online | 2 |
al aversion sabor | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "aversion"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Afrikaans | antipatie (dislike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | neveri (abhorrence, abomination, contempt, disdain, disgust, disrelish, distaste, execration, gorge, horror, loathing, nausea, odiousness, odium, recoil, repugnance, repulsion, revolt, scorn), mospëlqim (antipathy, disfavor, disfavour, dislike, disrelish, distaste, indisposition, non-compliance, objection, scunner), mosdashje (disinclination, dislike, indisposition, reluctance, unwillingness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | كره (abhor, abominate, be offensive, be repugnant, be repulsive, become hateful, coerce, compel, constrain, despise, detest, disfavor, disfavour, disincline, dislike, drive, force, hate, hating, loathe, swagger), كراهية (antipathy, dislike, disrelish, distaste, hate, hatred, odium, repugnance), مقت (abhor, abominate, be detested, detest, detestation, hate, odium, repugnance), نفور (antipathy, disaffection, disinclination, dislike, distaste, estrangement, indisposition, offish, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, startle), بغض (fierceness, odiousness, unpleasantness, unwillingness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | омраза (detestation, dislike, hate, hatred, loathing, odium, rancor, rancour), нежелание (disinclination, indisposition, reluctance, unwillingness), антипатия (antipathy, repugnance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 反感 (Averse, Dislike, off-putting, repugnant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | averze (dislike, loathing, repulsion), odpor (antipathy, contradiction, disgust, dislike, distaste, nausea, opposition, protest, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, resentment, resistance, revulsion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | modvilje (dislike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | tegenzin (dislike), hekel (dislike), antipathie (antipathy, dislike), afkeer (disgust, dislike, loathing, nausea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Esperanto | antipatio (dislike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | مغایرت (Contrast, Odds, Repugnance, Variance), مخالفت (Defiance, Gainsay, Objection, Opposition, Remonstrance, Repugnance, Resistance), نفرت (Disgust, Enmity, Hate, Hatred, Malice, Odium, Phobia), ناسازگاری (Antipathy, Conflict, Discord, Incoherence, Incompatibility, Incongruity, Inconsistency, Inconvenience, Intransigeance, Repugnance, Variance), بیزاری (Abhorrence, Disgust, Ennui, Grudge, Hatred, Loathloth, Reluctance, Tedium). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | vastenmielisyys (antipathy, dislike, distaste, repugnance, repulsiveness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | aversion, antipathie, répugnance, éc"urement. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Frisian | antipaty (dislike), tsjinsin (dislike), mier (disgust, dislike, loathing, nausea). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | abneigung (abhorrence, antipathy, disinclination, dislike, distaste, indisposition, objection, reluctance, repugnance), Greuel (abhorrence, abomination, atrocity, horror). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | αποστροφή (abhorrence, abomination, apostrophe, averseness, detestation, distaste, repugnance, repulsion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | "ראון (disgrace, ignominy, odium, shame), סלי"" (antipathy, disgust, loathsomeness, repugnance, revulsion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | irtózás (averseness, disrelish, distaste, horror, loathing, repulsion, shudder, shuddering), utálat tárgya, idegenkedés (antipathy, averseness, disinclination, dislike, indisposition, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | keseganan (awe), keengganan (dislike, indisposition, reluctance). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ripugnanza (abhorrence, disgust, dislike, distaste, loathing, nausea, repugnance), avversione (abhorrence, antipathy, detestation, disgust, disinclination, dislike, distaste, loathing, nausea, repugnance, revolt, revulsion). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 嫌忌 (dislike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | け"ぎ (dislike, motion, prefectural assembly, proposal, proposition, suggestion, suspicion), け"き (devilish swordsman, disgust, disinclination, dislike, tired of). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 넌"리. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | neuaggindys (averseness), feohderys (averseness), feoh (abhorrence, antipathy, disgust, feud, hatred, loathing, phobia), feoderaght. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Papiamen | antipatia (dislike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aversionay antipatia (antipathy, dislike, disrelish, distaste, hate, hatred, repugnance). (various references) aversiune (abhorrence, detestation of, disrelish, idiosyncrasy, indisposition, loathing, objection, quarrel, recoil, repugnance, repulsion, revolt), repugna (disgust, loathing, repulse, repulsion), oroare (abhorrence, execration, eyesore, hideousness, horror, recoil, repugnance, terror), greaţã (abhorrence, disgust, dislike, nausea, nauseousness, queasiness, repugnance, sickness), dezgust (abhorrence, abomination, disgust, disrelish, distaste, fulsomness, horror, loathing, repugnance, weariness). (various references) отвращение (abhorrence, abomination, abominations, allergy, disgust, distaste, hatred, loathing, odium, recoil, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, scunner), антипатия (antipathies, antipathy, dislike, repugnance). (various references) fuath (a spectre, abhorrence, hate, hatred). (various references) averzija (antipathy, averse), antipatija (antipathy). (various references) repugnancia (antipathy, disgust, dislike, distaste, loathing, nausea, reluctance, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion, unwillingness), aversión (abhorrence, abomination, antipathy, disgust, disinclination, dislike, distaste, horror, indisposition, loathing, nausea). (various references) aversion. (various references) การเกลีย"ชัง. (various references) yıldızı barışmama, sevmeme (dislike, distaste), sevimsiz tip (drip, slob), nefret (abhorrence, abomination, animosity, animus, antipathy, contempt, despite, detestation, disgust, dislike, distaste, down, enmity, execration, hate, hatred, horror, loathing, miso-, odiousness, odium, repugnance, repulsion), isteksizlik (disinclination, indisposition, reluctance, repugnance, unwillingness), iğrenç şey (sickener, stinker), hoşnutsuzluk (blahs, disaffection, discontent, discontentment, displeasure, dissatisfaction, ill feeling), hoşlanmama (antipathy, dislike, disrelish, distaste). (various references) відраза (abhorrence, antipathy, disgust, execration, revulsion, sickness), огида (abhorrence, abomination, hate, hatred, horror, loathing, nausea, odium, repugnance, repulsion), антипатія (antipathy, dislike, repugnance), предмет антипатії. (various references) sự không muốn cái mình ghét, sự ghét (dislike, loathing, odium, repugnance, repugnancy, repulsion), ác cảm sự không thích. (various references) gwrthwynebiad (objection), casbeth (nuisance), cas (disagreeable, enemy, foe, hateful, hater, hatred, nasty, odious). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | abominatio, abominationem, abominationes, abominationesque, abominationi, abominationibus, abominationis, abominationum, alienatio, fastidium. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "aversion": aversions. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "aversion": extraversion. (additional references) | |
Words containing "aversion": extraversions. (additional references) | |
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"Aversion" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: aerasion, amerasian, auersion, avarsion, Avenson, averson, avertion, Averton, Avesco, avesion, Avrion, daversion, eversion, ivesian, Navarino, oversion. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "aversion" (pronounced uver"zhun) |
| 5 | -v er" zh u n | conversion, diversion, inversion, perversion, reversion, subversion, version. |
| 4 | -er" zh u n | aspersion, dispersion, excursion, immersion, incursion, submersion. |
| 3 | -zh u n | abrasion, allusion, circumcision, cohesion, collision, collusion, conclusion, confusion, contusion, corrosion, decision, delusion, derision, diffusion, disillusion, division, envision, equation, erosion, evasion, excision, exclusion, explosion, extrusion, fusion, illusion, implosion, incision, inclusion, indecision, infusion, intrusion, invasion, lesion, misprision, occasion, occlusion, persuasion, precision, preclusion, profusion, provision, recision, rescission, revision, seclusion, suasion, subdivision, supervision, television, transfusion, vision. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-i-n-o-r-s-v" | |
-1 letter: erasion, evasion, ovaries, ravines, renvois, version. | |
-2 letters: aivers, ariose, arisen, arseno, arsine, arsino, avions, envois, invars, irones, naiver, naives, navies, norias, nosier, ovines, ravens, ravine, ravins, reason, renvoi, savine, savior, senior, senora, sovran, vainer, varies, vireos. | |
-3 letters: aeons, airns, aiver, anise, arise, arose, arson, arvos, avens, avers, avion, aviso, earns, envoi, eosin, invar. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-i-n-o-r-s-v" | |
+1 letter: aversions, pervasion, veronicas, versional. | |
+2 letters: adenovirus, carnivores, nervations, oversaving, overstrain, overtrains, pervasions, reinvasion, savoriness, sovranties, vanitories, vernations. | |
+3 letters: ambiversion, contrastive, covariances, derivations, enervations, inobservant, intravenous, invigorates, nonabrasive, observation, overactions, overanxious, overcasting, overpassing, oversalting, oversaucing, oversoaking, overstating, overstaying, overstrains, overtasking, personative, preinvasion, previsional, reinvasions, renovations, reservation, revelations, reversional, revisionary, revocations, vacationers, vainglories, variousness, vasopressin, venerations, ventilators, vibraphones, visionaries, voluntaries. | |
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