distaste

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Feelings of dislike and hatred
abhorrence
abomination
anathema
animosity
animus
distaste
distaste for someone/something
distastefully
enmity
execrate
misandrist
misandry
misanthrope
misanthropy
misogynist
self-hating
self-hatred
self-loathing
sore point
technophobe

aversion | American Dictionary

aversion
noun[ C ]
us/əˈvɜr·ʒən, -ʃən/
a feeling of strong dislike or unwillingness to do something:
I felt an instant aversion to his parents.
She has a deep aversion to getting up early.

Examples of aversion

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Sitting in the hot summer sun, unprotected by shade for more than seven hours, the community demonstrated its aversion to the dredging.
The countdown task consisted of five trials with two separate conditions: signaled aversion and unsignaled aversion.
Moreover, the role of risk and risk aversion might be integrated relatively straightforwardly in this framework.
That perfectly egalitarian outcome is based on "cognitivist" bias-neutralizing and aversion to uncertainty, not on responsibility.
Such commitment entails "bias-neutralizing" and "aversion to uncertainty," which support an egalitarian politics.
When three quarters of the couples' wealth is pre-annuitized, a coefficient of risk aversion greater than ten is required.
They annuitize at lower degrees of risk aversion and higher proportions of pre-annuitized wealth.
Furthermore, in the actual analysis, the utility from consumption is assumed to take the constant relative risk aversion functional form.
It follows that introducing a positive consumption floor has a similar effect to raising relative risk aversion.
This is especially true of those unforgiving employers whose aversion to employing convicted lawbreakers often ensured recidivism.
For such communities, strategies of risk aversion, as well as customary responses to famine, would still have mattered.
A desire or aversion might be part of the explanation of an action, but it is not a necessary condition of action.
Several of the market gardeners said they have an aversion to paperwork associated with insurance and other government programs.
I first analyze the general practice of avoidance rituals through aversion of gaze, and the timing of the initial eye-to-eye look.
The most important is ignorance of prognostic and indication criteria at forwarding workplaces and the aversion of neonatologists to all new therapeutic interventions.
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