Averseness

Synonyms for "averseness" (23 found)

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Closest matches (5)

antipathy disagreement disobedience

Noun(2 words)

aversion disinclination

Strong matches (7)

dissent distaste foot dragging hesitation indisposition indocility obstinacy

Related words (11)

opposition recalcitrance refusal reluctance renitency repugnance resistance slowness stubbornness sulks

Noun(1 words)

unwillingness

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averse

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3 entries

averse opposition unwillingness

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

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Oh the stubburnnesse of iniquitie, and mans auersenesse from his maker.

Source: wiktionary

[…] 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.

Source: wiktionary

There were tones in it [his fiddling] which bred the immediate conviction that indolence and averseness to systematic application were all that lay between 'Mop' and the career of a second [Niccolò] Paganini.

Source: wiktionary

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