aversionn.

/əˈvəːʃən/

Forms: Also 1600s avertion.

Etymology: (? < French aversion , 16th cent. in Littré) < Latin āversiōn-em, noun of action < āvers- : see averse adj. and n. and -ion suffix¹.

†1. The action of turning away oneself, one's eyes, etc.; spec. in Rhetoric (as in Latin) = apostrophe n.¹ 1.

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the world > space > direction > [noun] > changing to face different direction or turning > turning away

aversation1600

aversion1611

averting1812

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of structure or thought > [noun] > breaking off to make exclamatory address

apostrophationa1529

apostrophe1533

turn-tale1589

turnway1589

aversion1611

apostrophism1866

1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xii. 569/1 Which auersion or defection [of the Scots] was augmented vpon priuate quarrels.

1656 tr. J. A. Comenius Latinæ Linguæ Janua Reserata: Gate Lat. Tongue Unlocked lxxii. §687 An Aversion or Apostrophe, wherein the speech is turned from the hearers to somthing els.

1668 J. Howe Blessednesse of Righteous xiii. 208 Nor permits the aversion of the beholders eye.

†2. The action of averting, warding off, or getting rid of. Obsolete.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > hindering completely or preventing > [noun]

withsetting1340

arrestc1400

stanchingc1400

prevention1447

forbarringc1449

stop1544

preventing1563

stopple1578

cohibition1586

intercepting1598

stonda1604

attachment1609

preclusion1616

antevertinga1656

aversion1664

interpellation1814

suppression1859

stemming1914

1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1776) 417 Whatever is Exitial to Men is so to trees; for the Avertion of which they had, of old, recourse to the Robigalia.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician xiv. 504 The Humours..are to be purged in the beginning, at which time aversion is the most desired.

†3. A moral turning of oneself away, estrangement (from). Obsolete.

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the mind > emotion > hatred > quarrel or falling out > [noun] > moral turning away or estrangement

aversion1596

aversation1651

1596 T. Bell Suruey Popery iii. v. 281 Which is an auersion from God of infinite maiestie.

1691 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. 307 Sin in its formality is an Aversion from God.

a. An averted state of mind or feelings; a mental attitude of opposition or repugnance; a fixed, habitual dislike; an antipathy.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun]

contrariositya1340

adversitya1382

champertyc1386

contrariousness1398

thwartingc1430

contrariancec1450

contrariness?1530

withsitting1532

oppugning1535

opposition1548

oppugnation1563

thwartness1577

adverseness1580

crossing1580

breasting1594

antipathy1601

oppugnancy1609

affrontment1611

opposure1611

thortera1614

contrariancya1617

obstancy1616

oppositeness1619

contropposition1621

obstrigillation1623

opposing1624

hostility1632

opposal1638

crossness1641

affront1642

aversion1651

oppugnance1657

shock1664

opponency1727

counteraction1750

antagonism1797

throwing1816

oppositiveness1824

kick1839

variance1842

opposedness1853

againstness1909

hornet1921

adversariness1970

oppositionality1989

the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > instance or act of

contraryc1386

repugning1395

contrarietyc1449

aversion1651

1651 T. Hobbes Philos. Rudim. iii. §31. 55 Good and Evill are names given to things to signefie the inclination, or aversion of them by whom they were given.

1713 R. Steele Englishman No. 52. 332 There are among Brute Creatures many natural Aversions and Antipathies.

1855 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Philip II of Spain I. ii. vi. 204 Coldness and silence intimated too plainly the aversion of the inhabitants.

b. Const. (towards, against, obsolete), from, to (for), infinitive. See averse adj. 4b.

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the mind > emotion > hatred > feeling against or a settled dislike > [noun]

despitec1400

eelist1552

antipathy1606

dislike1608

aversion1622

averseness1623

reclination1678

indisposition1702

allergy1916

1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 16 His aversion towards the House of York.

1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. iii. 16 Nature..has put into Man a desire of Happiness, and an aversion to Misery.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 538. ¶3 An unconquerable Aversion which some Stomachs have against a Joint of Meat.

1759 W. H. Dilworth Life of Pope 85 Having no aversion to go by different names, she was called Sapho.

1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xlii. 140 The King of France's present aversion from war.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. 34 One for whom William felt an intense personal aversion.

1878 R. Simpson School of Shakspere I. 96 Philip's aversion to pirates.

5. transferred of things.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [noun] > as a state of things

aversion?c1800

?c1800 tr. Fourcroy in Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1890) Magnesia, notwithstanding this aversion to solution, forms a kind of paste with water.

6. An object of dislike or repugnance.

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the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > [noun] > object or cause of dislike

unwillc1000

distaste1608

disrelishment1646

distastive1654

aversion1678

aversationa1708

disrelish1823

bête noire1844

1678 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer (ed. 2) ii. i. 15 For, if anything be a Womans Aversion, 'tis Plain-dealing from another Woman.

1733 H. Fielding Miser (London ed.) i. i. 1 Mrs. Susan Cross-stitch, whom you know to be my utter Aversion.

1821 Ld. Byron Don Juan: Canto III xciv. 55 A clumsy frowzy poem, call'd the ‘Excursion', Writ in a manner which is my aversion.

Compounds

aversion therapy n. therapy or treatment designed to render a particular habit repugnant to someone addicted to it.

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the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [noun] > other forms of therapy

bibliotherapy1920

play therapy1936

art therapy1940

music therapy1944

aversion treatment1950

aversion therapy1956

behaviour therapy1959

marital therapy1961

guided imagery1973

rebirthing1976

imagery work1981

1956 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 13 Oct. 854/2 I have been unable to find any previous record of a fetishist who responded favourably to aversion therapy.

1965 Listener 28 Jan. 143/1 One method of so-called aversion therapy is to associate the stimulus that one wants to get rid of with something unpleasant, such as forced vomiting or electric shocks.

aversion treatment n. = aversion therapy n.

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