How to say "aversion" in Japanese
Choosing the right word
- 嫌悪感けんおかんnounCovers aversion as a feeling of strong dislike, disgust, or hatred toward something. Use it when 'aversion' names that emotion of repugnance itself rather than a figurative, allergy-like distaste.
- noun, noun (suffix)This is the loanword for 'allergy'; its 'aversion' sense is figurative — a strong distaste for something, as if one were allergic to it. Not the general word for a feeling of disgust.
Choose 嫌悪感 for aversion in its basic sense, a feeling of strong dislike, disgust, or hatred toward something; use 「アレルギー」 only for the figurative sense of an instinctive, allergy-like distaste for something.
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