averse
adjective
having a strong feeling of opposition, antipathy, repugnance, etc.; opposed (often used in combination): Young Americans are more debt-averse than older generations.
averseness
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a word derived from
averse.
Example Sentences
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Since Vietnam all media organizations had imbibed the conventional wisdom about the public’s apparent averseness to casualties.
From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2014
But the averseness of people to enlarge their field of experience and the wilful misrepresentation of designing persons know no bounds.
From Five Years of Theosophy by Various
Now, whence proceeds such an invincible averseness to that opinion in so many men of sense?
From The Existence of God by Henry Morley
Your averseness to her plan gives me pleasure, for it exactly corresponds with my own.
From Evelina, Or, the History of a Young Lady's Entrance into the World by Fanny Burney
For the fondness or averseness of the child to some servants, will at any time let one know, whether their love to the baby is uniform and the same, when one is absent, as present.
From Pamela, Volume II by Samuel Richardson
