aversion - Wiktionary, the free dictionary (original) (raw)

• Beginning
• 1 English
  • 1.1 Etymology
  • 1.2 Pronunciation
  • 1.3 Noun
    * 1.3.1 Derived terms
    * 1.3.3 Translations
  • 1.4 See also
  • 1.5 Anagrams
• 2 Danish
  • 2.1 Etymology
  • 2.2 Pronunciation
  • 2.3 Noun
    * 2.3.1 Inflection
  • 2.4 References
• 3 Finnish
  • 3.1 Noun
  • 3.2 Anagrams
• 4 French
  • 4.1 Etymology
  • 4.2 Pronunciation
  • 4.3 Noun
  • 4.4 Further reading
• 5 Swedish
  • 5.1 Noun
    * 5.1.1 Declension
  • 5.2 References

From Wiktionary, the free dictionary

Learned borrowing from Latin āversiō, āversiōnem. Doublet of aversio.

• (Received Pronunciation, General Australian) IPA(key): /əˈvɜːʒən/, /əˈvɜːʃən/
• (General American, Canada) IPA(key): /əˈvɝʒən/
• (MLE) IPA(key): /əˈvɜʒən/
• Hyphenation: aver‧sion

aversion (countable and uncountable, plural aversions)

1. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike often without any conscious reasoning.
   Synonyms: antipathy, disinclination, reluctance
   Due to her aversion to the outdoors she complained throughout the entire camping trip.
   Live with aversion to classic men's wear, likely die with aversion to classic men's wear.
   • 1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 169:
     The other patients in the ward, all but the Texan, shrank from him with a tenderhearted aversion from the moment they set eyes on him the morning after the night he had been sneaked in.
2. An object of dislike or repugnance.
   Synonym: abomination
   Pushy salespeople are a major aversion of mine.
3. (obsolete) The act of turning away from an object.

• ambiguity aversion

• aversion therapy

• change aversion

• chemoaversion

• photoaversion

• risk aversion

• uncertainty aversion

• averse

• avert

fixed dislike

• Arabic: نُفُور m (nufūr), كُرْه m (kurh), كَرَاهِيَة f (karāhiya), مَقْت m (maqt)
• Belarusian: агі́да f (ahída), абры́да f (abrýda), непрыя́знасць f (njepryjáznascʹ), антыпа́тыя f (antypátyja)
• Bengali: ঘৃণা (bn) (ghrina), নফরত (nofrot)
• Bulgarian: отвраще́ние (bg) n (otvrašténie), неприя́зън (bg) f (neprijázǎn), омра́за (bg) f (omráza), антипа́тия (bg) f (antipátija)
• Catalan: aversió (ca) f
• Chinese:
  Mandarin: 厭惡 / 厌恶 (zh) (yànwù)
• Czech: averze (cs), odpor (cs) m, nechuť (cs) f
• Danish: aversion c, modvilje c
• Dutch: afkeer (nl) m, aversie (nl) f
• Finnish: inho (fi), vastahakoisuus (fi), vastenmielisyys (fi)
• French: aversion (fr) f
• Georgian: არაკეთილგანწყობილება (araḳetilganc̣q̇obileba), ანტიპათია (anṭiṗatia)
• German: Abneigung (de) f, Vorbehalt (de) m, Widerwillen (de) m, Aversion (de) f
  Alemannic German: Abber m
• Greek: απέχθεια (el) f (apéchtheia), αποστροφή (el) f (apostrofí)
• Hebrew: סְלִידָה (he) f (slidá)
• Hindi: घृणा (hi) f (ghŕṇā)
• Hungarian: ellenszenv (hu), idegenkedés (hu), irtózás (hu), averzió (hu)
• Indonesian: aversi (id)
• Irish: drogall m
• Italian: avversione (it)
• Japanese: 嫌悪 (ja) (けんお, ken'o), 厭悪 (ja) (えんお, en'o)
• Korean: 혐오 (ko) (hyeomo), 염오 (yeomo)
• Latin: āversiō f
• Macedonian: о́дбивност f (ódbivnost), о́двратност f (ódvratnost), аве́рзија f (avérzija), антипа́тија f (antipátija)
• Māori: matakawa, ngākaukino, anuanu, konekone
• Norwegian: aversjon
• Polish: awersja (pl) f, niechęć (pl) f, odraza (pl) f
• Portuguese: aversão (pt) f
• Romanian: aversiune (ro) f
• Russian: отвраще́ние (ru) n (otvraščénije), неприя́тие (ru) n (neprijátije), неприя́знь (ru) f (neprijáznʹ), антипа́тия (ru) f (antipátija), омерзе́ние (ru) n (omerzénije)
• Sanskrit: अरुचि (sa) n (aruci), द्वेषस् (sa) n (dveṣas)
• Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic: avèrzija (sh) f, о̀тпор m
  Latin: avèrzija (sh) f, òtpor (sh) m
• Slovak: odpor m, averzia f
• Slovene: odpor (sl) m
• Spanish: aversión (es) f
• Swedish: aversion (sv), motvilja (sv)
• Tocharian B: ykāṃṣe
• Ukrainian: відра́за f (vidráza), оги́да (uk) f (ohýda), непри́язнь f (neprýjaznʹ), антипа́тія (uk) f (antypátija)

the object of dislike or repugnance

• adverse
• vairones, veraison

From French aversion, from Latin āversiō.

• IPA(key): [avæɐ̯ˈɕoˀn]

aversion c (singular definite aversionen, plural indefinite aversioner)

1. aversion, antipathy
   Synonyms: modvilje, antipati

• “aversion” in Den Danske Ordbog

aversion

1. genitive singular of aversio

• versiona

Borrowed from Latin āversiōnem.

• IPA(key): /a.vɛʁ.sjɔ̃/

aversion f (plural aversions)

1. aversion

• “aversion”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012

aversion c

1. aversion
   Synonym: motvilja

• “aversion”, in Svensk ordbok [Dictionary of Swedish] (in Swedish)
• “aversion”, in Svenska Akademiens ordlista [Wordlist of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)
• “aversion”, in Svenska Akademiens ordbok [Dictionary of the Swedish Academy] (in Swedish)

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