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adversion

adversion noun: a tendency or wish to avoid someone or something.

Noun

adversion

  1. A tendency or wish to avoid someone or something.
  2. (obsolete) A turning towards; the act of paying attention.
    • And if the eye / Of her adversion were fast fixt on high, / In midst of death 'twere no more fear or pain, / Then 'twas unto Elias to let flie1642, H[enry] M[ore], “ΑΝΤΙΨΥΧΟΠΑΝΝΥΧΙΑ [Antipsychopannychia], or A Confutation of the Sleep of the Soul after Death”, in ΨΥΧΩΔΙΑ [Psychōdia] Platonica: Or A Platonicall Song of the Soul, […]...
    • We have tested assertions of this kind, not as we should, by grounded and consecutive study of the whole document, but by momentary adversion to the passages specially attacked, with our minds full of the attack1890, Benjamin Breckinridge Warfield, “Chapter 3”, in On the Revision of the Confession of Faith

Origin of adversion

From Latin adversiōnem, from adversiō.

Questions about adversion

What does adversion mean?
Adversion means a tendency or wish to avoid someone or something.
What part of speech is adversion?
Adversion is a noun.

Words near adversion in the dictionary

  1. adversenesses
  2. adverser
  3. adversest
  4. adversifoliate
  5. adversifolious
  6. adversion
  7. adversities
  8. adversity
  9. adversive
  10. advert
  11. advertainment

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