aversion

Etymology

From Middle French aversion, from Latin āversiō. Doublet of aversio.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA^(key): /əˈvɜːʒən/, /əˈvɜːʃən/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /əˈvɝʒən/
• 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.

   • 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.

See also

• adverse

Anagrams

• vairones, veraison

Noun

aversion

1. genitive singular of aversio

Anagrams

• versiona

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.

Noun

aversion c

1. aversion

   Synonym: motvilja

References

• aversion in Svensk ordbok (SO)
• aversion in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• aversion in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)