Definitions for aversive
əˈvɜr sɪv, -zɪvaver·sive

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. aversiveadjective

   tending to repel or dissuade

   "aversive conditioning"

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1. aversivenoun

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

2. aversivenoun

   An unpleasant stimulus intended to induce a change in behaviour.

3. aversiveadjective

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

4. aversiveadjective

   Avoidance that can be taught through the use of stimulus that either punish or reinforces.

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1. aversive

   In psychology, aversives are unpleasant stimuli that induce changes in behavior via negative reinforcement or positive punishment. By applying an aversive immediately before or after a behavior the likelihood of the target behavior occurring in the future is reduced. Aversives can vary from being slightly unpleasant or irritating to physically, psychologically and/or emotionally damaging. It is not the level of unpleasantness or intention that matter, but rather the level of effectiveness the unpleasant event has on changing (decreasing) behavior that defines something as aversive.

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1. aversive

   Aversive refers to anything that is unpleasant or undesirable which causes an individual to avoid or distance themselves from it. It is often used in psychological terms, referring to stimuli that an organism seeks to escape or avoid due to its negative or unpleasant nature.

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How to pronounce aversive?

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of aversive in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of aversive in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of aversive in a Sentence

1. Tom Kupfer:

   Disgust is an aversive emotion and can be a nasty thing to experience, if you have too much disgust and it's too strong and too regular, like people with trypophobia can have day after day, it's a pretty unpleasant experience.

2. Mats Olsson:

   On average, people smell more aversive when they're sick.

3. Steve Balch:

   My quarrel isn’t with people who think diversity, equity and inclusion are good things, my argument and the argument of the NAS is turning them into dogma and then using them to vet faculty members, graduate students, undergraduate students – creating aversive environment in which you feel you have to swear fealty to a particular creed. I think that’s wrong.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=aversive
2. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Aversive
3. ^ Wikipedia
   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aversive
4. ^ ChatGPT
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5. ^ Usage in printed sources
   https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=aversive