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aversion
  1. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike.
  2. An object of dislike or repugnance.
  3. (obsolete) The act of turning away from an object.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “From that very moment, she conceived an extreme aversion for him.”
      “Surviving depended on suppressing my natural aversion to mistreatment.”
      “I have a strong aversion to most jam band music and its accompanying culture.”
averruncation
  1. (archaic, rare) (The act of) warding off, averting (something evil).
  2. Eradication.
avertress
  1. A woman, girl, goddess, or other female agent who averts.
averseness
  1. The quality of being averse; opposition of mind; unwillingness.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “For instance, CB1 on glutamatergic neurons constrain the expression of fear responses, once the averseness of the test situation has surpassed a certain threshold.”
      “Increasing climate uncertainties are an additional threat in drought prone environments and also one of the major factors for risk averseness.”
aversation
  1. (obsolete) A turning from with dislike; aversion.
averter
  1. One who, or that which, averts.
  2. Examples:
    1. “In a gambling context, a risk averter puts higher utility on the expected value of the gamble than on taking the gamble itself.”
      “Taken in a stimulant dose, tobacco is not only not a producer, it is an averter, of paralysis.”
      “This relation indicates the risk averter approach of the female branch managers.”
averruncations
  1. plural of averruncation
aversations
  1. plural of aversation
aversenesses
avertresses
  1. plural of avertress
aversions
  1. plural of aversion
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “I have some food aversions and was wondering who else had some they wanted to share.”
      “One of my pet aversions is sitting cooped up in an aircraft in a not too spacious or comfortable seat and being pummeled.”
      “When people relapsed despite the aversions, the researchers asked them a lot of questions about what happened.”
averters
  1. plural of averter
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