aversion

IPA: ʌvˈɝʒʌn

Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike often without any conscious reasoning.
An object of dislike or repugnance.
(obsolete) The act of turning away from an object.

Examples of "aversion" in Sentences

Risk aversion is one of the most serious problems and largest cost of our human space flight enterprise.
One of the best ways to punch through the bunker of risk-aversion is plunging into activities and passions off-the-clock, as Lingafelter did with climbing.
And typically what priests look for is what they call the aversion to the sacred, which is a person's inability to pray, to say the name of Jesus or Mary, to even look at the priest.
This would suggest that, since loss aversion is a psychological bias, the favourite-longshot bias may not necessarily be caused by psychological issues and may be due, for instance, to informational asymmetry.
But then again, in those weeks between the scouting combine and draft day, you just know the risk aversion is going to set in for teams looking at some pretty good players as alternatives in that range of picks 5-15.
The present work supports the idea that loss aversion may be a more universal bias, arising regardless of experience and culture and demonstrates that loss aversion is displayed even by those bettors regarded in the market as “smart money”.