AVERSION


Meaning of AVERSION in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

risk

However, A displays more curvature than B at that point, and hence more risk aversion .

therapy

What we practised was aversion therapy .

Apnea is a form of aversion therapy which produces a terrifying paralysis of breathing for about 60 seconds.

But I was not of that age, had no desire to learn programming languages, and had undergone game aversion therapy .

This is especially the case with the chemical and electrical aversion therapies .

I painted the nibbled area with a well known brand of chilli sauce as aversion therapy .

Imagery offers another approach to aversion therapy which is not as painful or invasive as the procedures mentioned above.

But cruel Freudian aversion therapy proved incapable of changing it, and the fashion then changed to hormonal explanations.

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Most people have a natural aversion to anything associated with death or dying.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Lithography a printing process based on the principle of the natural aversion of water to grease.

Margarett had an aversion to the Boston School.

My love of law is almost equal to my aversion to lawyers.

Rick Perry, the Texas commissioner of agriculture, is a rancher with an aversion to hyperbole.

The Symbolist poets and artists were unanimous in their aversion to the photographic image.

You should not tell your client to expect that they will automatically experience an aversion response to the imagery of drinking.

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