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aversion

noun
/əˈvɜːʒən/UK/əˈvɝʒən/CA/əˈvɜʒən/

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin āversiō, āversiōnem. Doublet of aversio.

  1. learned borrowing from āversiō

Definitions

  1. Opposition or repugnance of mind

    Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike often without any conscious reasoning.

    • Due to her aversion to the outdoors she complained throughout the entire camping trip.
    • Live with aversion to classic men's wear, likely die with aversion to classic men's wear.
    • 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.

    • Pushy salespeople are a major aversion of mine.

  3. The act of turning away from an object.

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Derived

ambiguity aversion, aversion therapy, change aversion, chemoaversion, photoaversion, risk aversion, uncertainty aversion

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at aversion. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at aversion. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at aversion

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

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