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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:

  Aversion \A*ver"sion\, n. [L. aversio: cf. F. aversion. See
     {Avert}.]
     1. A turning away. [Obs.]
  
              Adhesion to vice and aversion from goodness. --Bp.
                                                    Atterbury.
  
     2. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike;
        antipathy; disinclination; reluctance.
  
              Mutual aversion of races.             --Prescott.
  
              His rapacity had made him an object of general
              aversion.                             --Macaulay.
  
     Note: It is now generally followed by to before the object.
           [See {Averse}.] Sometimes towards and for are found;
           from is obsolete.
  
                 A freeholder is bred with an aversion to
                 subjection.                        --Addison.
  
                 His aversion towards the house of York. --Bacon.
  
                 It is not difficult for a man to see that a
                 person has conceived an aversion for him.
                                                    --Spectator.
  
                 The Khasias . . . have an aversion to milk. --J.
                                                    D. Hooker.
  
     3. The object of dislike or repugnance.
  
              Pain their aversion, pleasure their desire. --Pope.
  
     Syn: Antipathy; dislike; repugnance; disgust. See {Dislike}.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  aversion
       n 1: a feeling of intense dislike [syn: {antipathy}, {distaste}]
       2: the act of turning yourself (or your gaze) away; "averting
          her gaze meant that she was angry" [syn: {averting}]

From eng-fra [engfra]:

  aversion
  	[əvəːʃən]
  	antipathie
  
  

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