aversive

If we do not understand this emotion, then we are leaving its capability on the table by having this bizarrely aversive relationship with it.

When a panel of people smelled the collection T-shirts, panelists found the body odor of people whose immune systems had been activated by the endotoxin to be more aversive than normal body odor.

The take-home message is that if someone smells aversive, others may avoid being in close proximity, which is a pretty reasonable strategy for avoiding potential infections.

We procrastinate on tasks we find “difficult, unpleasant, aversive or just plain boring or stressful.”

You feel this ripping apart psychologically and it’s incredibly corrosive and aversive.

That attitude has no doubt influenced whether these experiences are pleasurable or aversive.

Here he found a most congenial orbit, for his tastes were aversive to the rough and tumble of political strife.