(n.) Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste.
(n.) Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy.
Example Sentences:
(1) A questionnaire was presented to 2009 18--19 year old military recruitment candidates which enabled assessment of antipathy towards patients with severe acne vulgaris, the occupational handicap associated with severe acne and subjective inhibitions in acne patients.
(2) Gilmore said she can understand that antipathy towards teenage pregnancy in many countries, but said traditional belief systems were not a reason to hold on to a “toxic norm”.
(3) While Egypt's military rulers were quick to blame football hooliganism, a group of hardline Al Ahly fans, known as ultras, accused the police of intentionally letting rivals attack them because of their historic antipathy to the security forces and their role at the forefront of anti-Mubarak protests a year ago.
(4) Home-state antipathy to Christie was crystallized in an blistering editorial published by the Newark Star-Ledger when Christie launched his campaign in June.
(5) Obama said then: They get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.
(6) Rioters revealed that a complex mix of grievances brought them on to the streets but analysts appointed by the LSE identified distrust and antipathy toward police as a key driving force.
(7) Perhaps the only thing Katie does get to take home is her antipathy to laughter.
(8) In surveying racist attitudes in Australia, Kevin Dunn from the University of Western Sydney found this contributes to a strong antipathy towards Muslims.
(9) Some of this antipathy about Europe in general really relates of course to the European court of human rights, rather than the EU.
(10) What is less well known is that Obama’s personal antipathy towards the prime minister co-exists with a genuine commitment to the welfare and security of the Jewish state.
(11) There is nothing subtle about Trump’s antipathy to science.
(12) Sinn Féin's president, Gerry Adams , says he understands the "antipathy" the family of IRA murder victim Jean McConville feel towards republicans – and has revealed he has made a formal complaint to the police about aspects of his detention in connection with the killing.
(13) It is our antipathy towards migrants that kills in the Mediterranean Read more “When they leave, they are told to stay where they’re seated,” said the fisherman.
(14) Such conditions in the mother relate to the daughters' reports of adverse family experience involving maternal antipathy and neglect and physical and sexual abuse, most usually at the hands of a father or stepfather.
(15) But Profumo was the focus of antipathy for old sweats such as Kerby and the Labour MP Lieutenant-Colonel George Wigg.
(16) One former cabinet minister I spoke to agreed with the widespread view that Charles’s relationship with Diana was the biggest factor in public antipathy towards him.
(17) Apple's growing antipathy towards Google - initially over Android, then in its competition for mobile advertising attention, and then for pretty much everything, suggests that the company may be looking for other providers.
(18) In Part 2 Bentham speculates on its causes and alleges that the real reason such behavior is so severely punished is an irrational "antipathy" to pleasure generally and to sexual pleasure in particular.
(19) I am surprised that his close association with the Conservative party failed to make him aware of the fact that she nursed a deeply rooted antipathy towards trade unions generally and is on record as supporting the privatisation of the railways principally because this would significantly weaken both the NUM and Aslef, two of the largest and most powerful unions in the country.
(20) Though complicated by other factors, Rubio’s defeat in all of Florida’s 67 counties, except his home town of Miami, is partly confirmation of what opinion polls have been suggesting for some time: that antipathy toward Havana’s communist government among Cuban Americans in the state is no longer a decisive electoral issue, as it once was.
Aversion
Definition:
(n.) A turning away.
(n.) Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike; antipathy; disinclination; reluctance.
(n.) The object of dislike or repugnance.
Example Sentences:
(1) Consequently, the present data indicate that training-induced changes in the CS-evoked activity of PFCm cells are significantly related to aversively conditioned bradycardia in rabbits.
(2) It is concluded that in the mouse model the ability of buspirone to reduce the aversive response to a brightly illuminated area may reflect an anxiolytic action, that the dorsal raphe nucleus may be an important locus of action, and that the effects of buspirone may reflect an interaction at 5-hydroxytryptamine receptors.
(3) The electrical stimulation of the tail associated to a restraint condition of the rat produces a significant increase of immunoreactive DYN in cervical, thoracic and lumbar segments of spinal cord, therefore indicating a correlative, if not causal, relationship between the spinal dynorphinergic system and aversive stimuli.
(4) Cadavers have a multitude of possible uses--from the harvesting of organs, to medical education, to automotive safety testing--and yet their actual utilization arouses profound aversion no matter how altruistic and beneficial the motivation.
(5) Fish were trained monocularly via the compressed or the normal visual field using an aversive classical conditioning model.
(6) A sequence of seven pairings of chili-flavored diet with prompt recovery from thiamine deficiency did significantly attenuate the innate aversion and may have induced a chili preference in at least one case.
(7) Testing of CGRP (ICV) in both single bottle conditioned-aversion and differential starvation paradigms was done.
(8) The differential results obtained in the present series of experiments with vagotomy and NaCl-induced short-term and long-term aversion learning suggest that the vagal system plays a decisive role in tasks requiring the rapid detection of an aversive substance in the gastrointestinal tract (short-term tasks).
(9) An experimental investigation of acupuncture's analgesic potency, separated from suggestion effects, is described, in which judgments of shock-elicited pain of the forearm were recorded along two separate scales: intensity and aversiveness.
(10) It was possible to achieve this very clear result although a strong aversion to animal experiments and a critical attitude toward biological research exist in Switzerland, as well as in other European countries.
(11) The characteristic heart rate deceleration shown immediately prior to the aversive stimulus by control subjects was absent in the schizophrenic group.
(12) The threshold for stimulation-produced analgesia or aversion, whichever was lowest, was determined before and after drug administration.
(13) However, they do indicate that cocaine is only a weak aversion-inducing agent.
(14) Insecure infant attachment at 16 months was associated with maternal perception of overcontrol, depressed mood state, and aversive conditioning to the impending cry in the laboratory task at the 5-month period.
(15) When the rats were given the two-bottle taste aversion test neither compound was found to be aversive.
(16) These results suggest that pharmacological doses of CCK-8 can act as an aversive stimulus during conditioning.
(17) In contrast, periadolescent animals demonstrated a marked resistance to amphetamine's taste aversion inducing properties when compared with either infant or young adult animals.
(18) In the first experiment operated rats were compared with control rats in the acquisition of a learned alcohol aversion.
(19) In the WikiLeaks cables, the US ambassador in Berlin characterised the chancellor as "risk-averse and seldom creative".
(20) In the 2 hr condition, weaker aversions were exhibited and again the 35% EDC group showed the least aversion.