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Unpleasant vs Aversive - What's the difference?

unpleasant | aversive |

As adjectives the difference between unpleasant and aversive

is that unpleasant is not pleasant while aversive is tending to repel, causing avoidance (of a situation, a behaviour, an item, etc),.

As a noun aversive is

(grammar|uncountable) a grammatical case indicating that something is avoided or feared; the evitative case.

unpleasant

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not pleasant.

    • Derived terms

    * unpleasantness * late unpleasantness

    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