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aversion
[uh-vur-zhuhn, -shuhn]
noun
a strong feeling of dislike, opposition, repugnance, or antipathy (usually followed byto ).
a strong aversion to snakes and spiders.
Synonyms: , ,Antonyms:a cause or object of dislike; person or thing that causes antipathy.
His pet aversion is guests who are always late.
Obsolete.the act of averting; a turning away or preventing.
aversion
/ əˈɜːʃə /
noun
extreme dislike or disinclination; repugnance
a person or thing that arouses this
he is my pet aversion
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“Specifically, it’s jokes that have always attracted me when we’re talking about the comedy world,” Martin says of his aversion to storytelling.
Because alcohol is toxic, the fly's brain must carefully weigh the risks and benefits of drinking it, and it does this by balancing signals of attraction with aversion.
Trump’s aversion to accountability clearly reflects a desire to protect his own efforts to totally control executive policy.
Because conventionally attractive men send me hurtling back in time to when I was an awkward preteen, and I’ve since developed an aversion.
You began the first of two affairs that we know about, your aversion to a day's hard work continued as you messed up yet another job at Reynolds.
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