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Vocabulary

Antipathy vs aversion

What is the differnce between antipathy and aversion? And are these words common expressions in spoken English?

The articles were written by a very perceptive and brave 22-year-old who also rejected his father's antipathy to Jews.

My girlfriend has a major aversion to bugs
  

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Both aversion and antipathy seem to be less dependent on the will, and have their origin in the temperament or natural taste, which springs from causes that are not always visible. Antipathy is a natural aversion opposed to sympathy; aversion is opposed to attachment. People of a quiet temper have an aversion to disputing or argumentation; those of a gloomy temper have an aversion to society.

— Andriy Lapin

  • Both aversion and antipathy seem to be less dependent on the will, and have their origin in the temperament or natural taste, which springs from causes that are not always visible.
  • Antipathy is a natural aversion opposed to sympathy; aversion is opposed to attachment.
  • People of a quiet temper have an aversion to disputing or argumentation; those of a gloomy temper have an aversion to society.
  • Antipathies mostly discover themselves in early life, and as soon as the object comes within the view of the person affected.
  • George Crabb would surely be in favour of this post.
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Both aversion and antipathy seem to be less dependent on the will, and have their origin in the temperament or natural taste, which springs from causes that are not always visible. Antipathy is a natural aversion opposed to sympathy; aversion is opposed to attachment.

People of a quiet temper have an aversion to disputing or argumentation; those of a gl
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