aversion
noun
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Synonyms
disgust, distaste, horror, loathing, nausea, repugnance, repulsion, revulsion
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Davis learned the hard way that risk aversion is the riskiest political approach when voters recalled him in 2003 for bollixing energy and budget crises. — Dan Walters, The Mercury News, "Walters: Can Kamala Harris break California’s presidential jinx?," 1 Sep. 2019 Without ideological bias, though marked by an aversion to all exhortations to hatred, the diary consists almost exclusively of straightforward reports about three crucial phenomena—news, rumor and propaganda. — Dan Hofstadter, WSJ, "‘A Chill in the Air’ Review: A Tuscan Idyll Before the War," 30 Aug. 2018 Millennials are famous for their aversion to speaking on the phone. — Katerina Manoff, The Atlantic, "How They (Online Graduate Programs) Get You," 14 Aug. 2019 But the country with a now-deeply ingrained aversion to war and military expenditures has fallen far short of its 2014 pledge to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to raise defense spending to 2% of GDP by 2024. — Los Angeles Times, "U.S. envoy warns Germany: Pay more or risk losing protection," 9 Aug. 2019 But firms’ aversion to increasing prices may be as much a consequence of limp inflation as a contributor to it. — The Economist, "Prices for many goods do not move the way economists think they should," 8 Aug. 2019 Social scientists and philosophers have long noted people’s aversion to otherness of any kind, and the ubiquitous tendency to scapegoat and persecute minorities that differed from one’s own group in race, ethnicity or religion. — Arie Kruglanski, The Conversation, "Are Syrian refugees a danger to the West?," 19 July 2019 But McCarthy, a staunch Trump ally, said the president's aversion to Omar is based on ideology, not race. — Author: Zeke Miller, Alan Fram, Anchorage Daily News, "Trump says not happy with backers’ ‘send her back’ chant," 18 July 2019 Demand for cold storage is also being elevated by consumers’ growing aversion to chemical food preservatives. — Roger Vincent, latimes.com, "All that online grocery shopping is causing a cold storage shortage," 7 July 2019These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'aversion.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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