[aver.sion] n (1596) 1 obs: the act of turning away
2. a: a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it "regards drunkenness with ~" b: a settled dislike: antipathy "expressed an ~ to parties" c: a tendency to extinguish a behavior or to avoid a thing or situation and esp. a usu. pleasurable one because it is or has been associated with a noxious stimulus
3: one that is the object of aversion