averseness

Since Vietnam all media organizations had imbibed the conventional wisdom about the public’s apparent averseness to casualties.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2014

Die Dom.—I find great averseness p. 198in myself to suffering. 

From Samuel Rutherford and some of his correspondents by Alexander Whyte

They had but one drawback, the continued averseness of lord Thomas Villiers.

From Damon and Delia A Tale by William Godwin

In my averseness to solitude I sat down at a table where sat already a little, bald-headed, false-toothed Anglo-Indian, a man who bored me into fits of nervous excitement.

From The Inheritors by Joseph Conrad

She was pretty certain that lady would be glad to settle her in another county; and that her averseness to so ill-suited a marriage would only serve as an additional recommendation to her mother.

From A Description of Millenium Hall And the Country Adjacent Together with the Characters of the Inhabitants and Such Historical Anecdotes and Reflections As May Excite in the Reader Proper Sentiments of Humanity, and Lead the Mind to the Love of Virtue by Sarah Scott