Definition of Aversion

Aversion

A turning away.

Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance.

The object of dislike or repugnance.

Related Definitions:

Antipathy, Away, Disinclination, Dislike, Fixed, Mind, Object, Of, Opposition, Or, Reluctance, Repugnance, The, Turning

Aversion Quotations

Jealousy - that jumble of secret worship and ostensible aversion.
Emile M. Cioran

I regard you with an indifference closely bordering on aversion.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld

In fact, this network, which we may identify as the Round Table Groups, has no aversion to cooperating with the Communists, or any other groups, and frequently does so.
Carroll Quigley

My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

The greater the decrease in the social significance of an art form, the sharper the distinction between criticism and enjoyment by the public. The conventional is uncritically enjoyed, and the truly new is criticized with aversion.
Walter Benjamin

I was assigned to the Waffen-SS but was never involved in any crime. Besides, I always felt the need to write about my experiences in a larger context one day. This has only developed recently, now that I have overcome my inner aversion to writing an autobiography in the first place, specifically one having to do with my younger years.
Gunter Grass

I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.
Esa-Pekka Salonen

'Tis safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
Richard Brinsley Sheridan

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.
Gary Bauer

Business was his aversion; Pleasure was his business.
Maria Edgeworth

My only aversion to vice, is the price.
Victor Buono

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Aversion Translations

aversion in Danish is modvilje
aversion in Dutch is tegenzin, antipathie, afkeer, hekel
aversion in German is Greuel {m}, Abneigung {f}, Abneigung {f}
aversion in Latin is fastidium
aversion in Swedish is ovilja, aversion

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