averseness

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English

Etymology

From averse +‎ -ness.

Noun

averseness (usually uncountable, plural aversenesses)

  1. The quality of being averse; opposition of mind.
    Synonyms: aversion, disinclination, unwillingness
    • 1600, George Abbot, An Exposition upon the Prophet Jonah‎, London, Lecture 4, p. 65:
      Oh the stubburnnesse of iniquitie, and mans auersenesse from his maker.
    • 1742, Samuel Richardson, Pamela‎, London, Volume 4, Letter 56, p. 363:
      […] the Fondness or Averseness of the Child to some Servants […] will at any time let one know, whether their Love to the Baby is uniform and the same, when one is absent, as present.
    • 1893 April, Thomas Hardy, “The Fiddler of the Reels”, in Life’s Little Ironies , London: Osgood, McIlvaine and Co., , published 1894, →OCLC, page 181:
      There were tones in it [his fiddling] which bred the immediate conviction that indolence and averseness to systematic application were all that lay between 'Mop' and the career of a second [Niccolò] Paganini.
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