MEANING
Causing or involving a tendency to avoid something unpleasant.
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- aversive stimulus
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The noise became an aversive stimulus.
The experiment tested an aversive response.
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Primary category: fear. Forms: Comparative more aversive; superlative most aversive where gradation is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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