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Aversive vs Versive - What's the difference?

aversive | versive |

As adjectives the difference between aversive and versive

is that aversive is tending to repel, causing avoidance (of a situation, a behaviour, an item, etc) while versive is {{cx|medicine|lang=en}} Exhibiting or relating to version.

As a noun aversive

is a grammatical case indicating that something is avoided or feared; the evitative case.

aversive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to repel, causing avoidance (of a situation, a behaviour, an item, etc),

    • Noun

  • (grammar, uncountable) A grammatical case indicating that something is avoided or feared; the evitative case.
  • (psychology, countable) An unpleasant stimulus intended to induce a change in behaviour.

    • References

    * Skinner, B. F. (1969) Contingencies of Reinforcement . New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts

    versive

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Exhibiting or relating to version.