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Disrepute vs Aversion - What's the difference?

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Disrepute is a related term of aversion.


As nouns the difference between disrepute and aversion

is that disrepute is loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit while aversion is aversion.

As a verb disrepute

is to bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.

disrepute

English

Noun

(-)
  • Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit.
  • *
  • Herbarium material does not, indeed, allow one to extrapolate safely: what you see is what you get; what you get is classical alpha-taxonomy which is, very largely and for sound reasons, in disrepute today.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
  • At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute .

    Verb

    (disreput)
  • To bring into disreputation; to hold in dishonor.
  • Anagrams

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    aversion

    English

    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.
  • Synonyms

    * (fixed dislike) antipathy, disinclination, reluctance * (object of repugnance) abomination

    See also

    * adverse

    Anagrams

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