Noun

(en noun)

Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike.

Due to her aversion to the outdoors she complained throughout the entire camping trip.

An object of dislike or repugnance.

Pushy salespeople are a major aversion of mine.

(obsolete) The act of turning away from an object.

Noun

(-)

A lack of relish: distaste

*{{quote-book, year=1690, author=John Locke, title=An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I., chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=Bread or tobacco may be neglected where they are shown to be useful to health, because of an indifferency or disrelish to them; reason and consideration at first recommends, and begins their trial, and use finds, or custom makes them pleasant. }}

*{{quote-book, year=1818, author=John Franklin, title=The Journey to the Polar Sea, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage=The residents live principally upon this most delicious fish which fortunately can be eaten a long time without disrelish . }}

* Burke

Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.

*1819 , , Otho the Great , Act IV, Scene II, verses 40-42

that those eyes may glow

With wooing light upon me, ere the Morn

Peers with disrelish , grey, barren, and cold.

*{{quote-book, year=1872, author=J. Fenimore Cooper, title=The Bravo, chapter=, edition= citation

, passage="I have no other malice against the race, Signore, than the wholesome disrelish of a Christian. }}

*1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 685:

*:They heated up tinned food in a saucepan of hot water and ate it with sadness and disrelish , under the belief that they were economising.

Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.

(Milton)