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GNU Project's publication of CIDE, the Collaborative International Dictionary of English Aversion \A*ver"sion\, n. [L. aversio: cf. F. aversion. See
Avert.]
1. A turning away. [Obs.]
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Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. --Bp.
Atterbury.
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2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike;
antipathy; disinclination; reluctance.
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Mutual aversion of races. --Prescott.
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His rapacity had made him an object of general
aversion. --Macaulay.
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Note: It is now generally followed by to before the object.
[See Averse.] Sometimes towards and for are found;
from is obsolete.
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A freeholder is bred with an aversion to
subjection. --Addison.
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His aversion towards the house of York. --Bacon.
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It is not difficult for a man to see that a
person has conceived an aversion for him.
--Spectator.
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The Khasias . . . have an aversion to milk. --J.
D. Hooker.
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3. The object of dislike or repugnance.
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Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire. --Pope.
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Syn: Antipathy; dislike; repugnance; disgust. See Dislike.
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WordNet Aversion
n 1: a feeling of intense dislike [syn: antipathy, distaste]
2: the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away; "averting
her gaze meant that she was angry" [syn: averting]

Moby Dictionary
Anglophobia , Russophobia , abhorrence , abomination , allergy ,
anathema , animosity , antagonism , anti-Semitism , antipathy ,
averseness , backwardness , bad books , bigotry , cold sweat ,
creeping flesh , cursoriness , despitefulness , detestation ,
disagreement , disfavor , disgust , disinclination , dislike ,
disliking , disobedience , displeasure , disrelish , dissatisfaction ,
dissent , distaste , dread , enmity , execration , fear , foot-dragging ,
fractiousness , grudging consent , grudgingness , hate , hatred ,
horror , hostility , indisposedness , indisposition , indocility ,
intractableness , lack of enthusiasm , lack of zeal , loathing ,
malevolence , malice , malignity , misandry , misanthropy , misogyny ,
mortal horror , mutinousness , nausea , nolition , obstinacy , odium ,
opposition , peeve , perfunctoriness , pet peeve , phobia , race hatred ,
racism , recalcitrance , recalcitrancy , refractoriness , refusal ,
reluctance , renitence , renitency , repellency , repugnance ,
repulsion , resistance , revulsion , shuddering , slowness , spite ,
spitefulness , stubbornness , sulk , sulkiness , sulks , sullenness ,
unenthusiasm , unwillingness , vials of hate , vials of wrath ,
xenophobia