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Aversive Moderate

Origin: Latin suffix -ive

Aversive has 3 different meanings across 1 category:

Adjective

Definitions
Noun
1

a grammatical case indicating that something is avoided or feared; the evitative case

Adjective
1

tending to repel or dissuade

"aversive conditioning"

2

tending to repel, causing avoidance (of a situation, a behaviour, an item, etc.)

See Also
aversively unpleasant behaviour denatonium nonaversive grammatical case phobotaxis stimulus
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Rhyming Words
vive zive give yive jive wive tive rive five bive dive live hive skive blive shive alive snive chive swive
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