AVERSION


Meaning of AVERSION in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ə-ˈvər-zhən, -shən ]

noun

Date: 1596

1. obsolete : 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 aversion

b. : a settled dislike : antipathy

expressed an aversion to parties

c. : a tendency to extinguish a behavior or to avoid a thing or situation and especially a usually pleasurable one because it is or has been associated with a noxious stimulus

3. : an object of aversion

inconstancy is my aversion — Jane Austen

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.