averseness

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

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2014

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 Scott, Sarah

I asked irrelevantly, moved by I know not what spirit of averseness.

From The Romance of a Plain Man by Glasgow, Ellen Anderson Gholson

Indeed I too well know the indisposition and averseness of the carnal mind to God and his ways.

From Address to the Inhabitants of the Colonies, established in New South Wales And Norfolk Island by Johnson, Richard

This lenient treatment of the conspirators was quite characteristic of the later disposition of Nasr-ed-Din Shah, and his averseness to judicial severity.

From Persia Revisited by Gordon, Thomas Edward