Meaning and example
a feeling of intense dislike
The passage used "aversion" to mean a feeling of intense dislike.
Plain-English interpretation
A prevalence score of 1.917 places aversion in the common range on this site. In practical terms, the word was recognized by about 97.7% of people in the source dataset.
Related words
Similar-prevalence words
consensusCommon
- Known by
- 97.7%
agreement in the judgment or opinion reached by a group as a whole
meticulousCommon
- Known by
- 97.7%
marked by precise accordance with details
existentialCommon
- Known by
- 97.7%
derived from experience or the experience of existence
duplicityCommon
- Known by
- 97.8%
a fraudulent or duplicitous representation
impassiveCommon
- Known by
- 97.8%
having or revealing little emotion or sensibility; not easily aroused or excited
Source attribution
Brysbaert, M., Mandera, P., McCormick, S. F., & Keuleers, E. (2019). Word prevalence norms for 62,000 English lemmas. Behavior Research Methods, 51, 467-479.
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