n 1  :  a feeling of repugnance toward something with a desire to avoid or turn from it  2  :  a tendency to extinguish a behavior or to avoid a thing or situation and esp. a usu. pleasurable one because it is or has been associated with a noxious stimulus <conditioning of food s by drug injection>  .
 
   
 
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