Aversion
noun
A strong dislike or unwillingness towards something.
He has an aversion to physical work.
Often appears as...
- have an aversion
- develop an aversion
noun
In psychology, a natural or acquired tendency to avoid specific situations or stimuli.
Phobias are examples of aversions.
Often appears as...
- create an aversion
- build an aversion
noun
In medicine, a negative reaction to a specific substance, especially drugs.
A patient may develop an aversion to a certain medication after prolonged use.
Often appears as...
- induce an aversion
- cause an aversion
noun
A strong dislike or unwillingness towards something.
He has an aversion to physical work.
Often appears as...
- have an aversion
- develop an aversion
noun
In psychology, a natural or acquired tendency to avoid specific situations or stimuli.
Phobias are examples of aversions.
Often appears as...
- create an aversion
- build an aversion
noun
In medicine, a negative reaction to a specific substance, especially drugs.
A patient may develop an aversion to a certain medication after prolonged use.
Often appears as...
- induce an aversion
- cause an aversion
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Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Aversion often carries a strong emotional feeling, more intense than just not liking something.
She felt a deep aversion towards injustice.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Refusal
Use 'aversion' to politely express refusal or dislike without being direct.
I have an aversion to attending such noisy events.
Pro Tip 3/3Behavioral Hint
Aversion suggests someone might avoid the disliked activity or object altogether.
His aversion to flying led him to travel by train.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Aversion often carries a strong emotional feeling, more intense than just not liking something.
She felt a deep aversion towards injustice.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Refusal
Use 'aversion' to politely express refusal or dislike without being direct.
I have an aversion to attending such noisy events.
Pro Tip 3/3Behavioral Hint
Aversion suggests someone might avoid the disliked activity or object altogether.
His aversion to flying led him to travel by train.
Pro Tip 1/3Emotional Weight
Aversion often carries a strong emotional feeling, more intense than just not liking something.
She felt a deep aversion towards injustice.
Pro Tip 2/3Subtle Refusal
Use 'aversion' to politely express refusal or dislike without being direct.
I have an aversion to attending such noisy events.
Pro Tip 3/3Behavioral Hint
Aversion suggests someone might avoid the disliked activity or object altogether.
His aversion to flying led him to travel by train.
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Pavlovian reactions...
for a potential love interest, there's a good chance that you'll be viewed more favorably in the future, even if you didn't prepare the delicious food. And who wouldn't want the love of their life drooling over them? But life is not just bell rings and salivation. There's also a dark side to this type of learning, called "taste aversion".
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Creativity is a remix PIPE...
Now, behavioral economists might refer to this sort of thing as loss aversion We have a strong predisposition towards protecting what we feel is ours. We have no such aversion towards copying what other people have, because we do that nonstop. So here's the sort of equation we're looking at.
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Stopping Pandemics, An...
seem to be over the coronavirus let's talk about some of these images that we have seen pictures of people around the country in large locations at bars on beaches without masks many people seem to just have an aversion to wearing masks even though you and other experts have said that
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Martin Rees: Can we...
via cosmic ray collisions. But scientists should surely be precautionary about experiments that generate conditions without precedent in the natural world. Biologists should avoid release of potentially devastating genetically modified pathogens. And by the way, our special aversion
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Why it's so hard to make...
So many activities in health care are hidden, they're unwitnessed, but doctors are social animals, and they perform better when they see what other doctors do. So social influence works in health care. So does tying it to notions of regret or to loss aversion.
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James Kunstler: How bad...
to see if they can inhabit this planet. A lot of this comes from the fact that the industrial city in America was such a trauma that we developed this tremendous aversion for the whole idea of the city, city life, and everything connected with it.
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My Inner Life with...
I transferred to a new treatment center that understood my aversions, my trauma, and my social anxiety, and they knew how to treat it, and I got the help I finally needed. And after 18 months of hard work, I went on to do incredible things.
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What it's like to be a...
and how it manifests both explicitly and implicitly. But this situation, this aversion to a bag full of pink stuff, forced me to explore my rejection of highly feminized things in my child's world. I realized that I was reinforcing sexism
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How to change your...
the rest of it will do nothing -- kids, coin, doesn't matter. People think loss aversion will have a small effect. What actually happened? Sending a text reminder once a week helps a lot. Good news!
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Tackling Climate Change...
immune system against common bow-bow being pro teens and in this way we can create an aversion to eating echo and friendly food and we can do this for example by having meat patches kind of
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Pavlovian reactions...
for a potential love interest, there's a good chance that you'll be viewed more favorably in the future, even if you didn't prepare the delicious food. And who wouldn't want the love of their life drooling over them? But life is not just bell rings and salivation. There's also a dark side to this type of learning, called "taste aversion".
Video examples
Creativity is a remix PIPE...
Now, behavioral economists might refer to this sort of thing as loss aversion We have a strong predisposition towards protecting what we feel is ours. We have no such aversion towards copying what other people have, because we do that nonstop. So here's the sort of equation we're looking at.
Video examples
Stopping Pandemics, An...
seem to be over the coronavirus let's talk about some of these images that we have seen pictures of people around the country in large locations at bars on beaches without masks many people seem to just have an aversion to wearing masks even though you and other experts have said that
Video examples
Martin Rees: Can we...
via cosmic ray collisions. But scientists should surely be precautionary about experiments that generate conditions without precedent in the natural world. Biologists should avoid release of potentially devastating genetically modified pathogens. And by the way, our special aversion
Video examples
Why it's so hard to make...
So many activities in health care are hidden, they're unwitnessed, but doctors are social animals, and they perform better when they see what other doctors do. So social influence works in health care. So does tying it to notions of regret or to loss aversion.
Video examples
James Kunstler: How bad...
to see if they can inhabit this planet. A lot of this comes from the fact that the industrial city in America was such a trauma that we developed this tremendous aversion for the whole idea of the city, city life, and everything connected with it.
Video examples
My Inner Life with...
I transferred to a new treatment center that understood my aversions, my trauma, and my social anxiety, and they knew how to treat it, and I got the help I finally needed. And after 18 months of hard work, I went on to do incredible things.
Video examples
What it's like to be a...
and how it manifests both explicitly and implicitly. But this situation, this aversion to a bag full of pink stuff, forced me to explore my rejection of highly feminized things in my child's world. I realized that I was reinforcing sexism
Video examples
How to change your...
the rest of it will do nothing -- kids, coin, doesn't matter. People think loss aversion will have a small effect. What actually happened? Sending a text reminder once a week helps a lot. Good news!
Video examples
Tackling Climate Change...
immune system against common bow-bow being pro teens and in this way we can create an aversion to eating echo and friendly food and we can do this for example by having meat patches kind of
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Mahavira
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.
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Stephen McCauley
American Author
I guess I have an aversion to writing about big events and heroic actions. The everyday has always seemed most important to me in writing, probably because I believe people reveal themselves in how they deal with small details.
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James Nesbitt
Irish Actor
I have three older sisters who, when we were children, used to hold me down on a bad day and put make-up all over me, so I've had an aversion to it all my life and hate sitting down in the make-up chair.
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Frans de Waal
Dutch Scientist
Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take this personally.
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Letitia James
American Public Servant
Around the nation, lawmakers have drawn up their districts with such perverse precision and aversion to competition, that legislators rarely face competitive challenges.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
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Patty Jenkins
American Director
Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world.
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
French Novelist
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Gregg Wallace
English Celebrity
Two things in life I hate - one is technology, the other is forms. I just have an aversion to them.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen
Finnish Musician
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.
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Mahavira
Attachment and aversion are the root cause of karma, and karma originates from infatuation. Karma is the root cause of birth and death, and these are said to be the source of misery. None can escape the effect of their own past karma.
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Stephen McCauley
American Author
I guess I have an aversion to writing about big events and heroic actions. The everyday has always seemed most important to me in writing, probably because I believe people reveal themselves in how they deal with small details.
Quote examples
James Nesbitt
Irish Actor
I have three older sisters who, when we were children, used to hold me down on a bad day and put make-up all over me, so I've had an aversion to it all my life and hate sitting down in the make-up chair.
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Frans de Waal
Dutch Scientist
Chimpanzees have very strong preferences and aversions that are completely personality-linked. The people who are unsuccessful in working with chimpanzees are those who take this personally.
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Letitia James
American Public Servant
Around the nation, lawmakers have drawn up their districts with such perverse precision and aversion to competition, that legislators rarely face competitive challenges.
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Francois de La Rochefoucauld
French Writer
Our aversion to lying is commonly a secret ambition to make what we say considerable, and have every word received with a religious respect.
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Patty Jenkins
American Director
Strangely, I have a huge aversion to movies that try to teach healthy people an abusive lesson about the darkness in the world.
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Sidonie Gabrielle Colette
French Novelist
My true friends have always given me that supreme proof of devotion, a spontaneous aversion for the man I loved.
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Gregg Wallace
English Celebrity
Two things in life I hate - one is technology, the other is forms. I just have an aversion to them.
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Esa-Pekka Salonen
Finnish Musician
I always had, deep down, a slight aversion toward the purely cerebral in music.
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