Aversive

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  • adjective. Causing avoidance of a thing, situation, or behavior by using an unpleasant or punishing stimulus, as in techniques of behavior modification.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • Averse; turning away.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • adjective. of or pertaining to aversion.
  • adjective. exhibiting avoidance or causing avoidance.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Tending to repel, causing avoidance (of a situation, a behaviour, an item, etc),
  • adjective. Avoidance that can be taught through the use of stimulus that either punish or reinforces.
  • noun. A grammatical case indicating that something is avoided or feared; the evitative case.
  • noun. An unpleasant stimulus intended to induce a change in behaviour.
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  • adjective. tending to repel or dissuade
  • Word Usage
    "The researchers bred mice without the gene and put them in aversive situations, such as giving them a mild shock at a certain point in their cage."
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