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averseness

noun

Etymology

From averse + -ness.

  1. derived from aversus
  2. suffixed as averseness — “averse + ness”

Definitions

  1. The quality of being averse

    The quality of being averse; opposition of mind.

    • Oh the stubburnnesse of iniquitie, and mans auersenesse from his maker.
    • […] the Fondness or Averseness of the Child to some Servants […] will at any time let one know, whether their Love to the Baby is uniform and the same, when one is absent, as present.
    • There were tones in it [his fiddling] which bred the immediate conviction that indolence and averseness to systematic application were all that lay between 'Mop' and the career of a second [Niccolò] Paganini.

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA