aversive

  1. Adjective.  Tending to repel, causing avoidance (of a situation, a behaviour, an item, etc), .
  2. Adjective.  Avoidance that can be taught through the use of stimulus that either punish or reinforces.
  3. Noun.  (grammar, uncountable) A grammatical case indicating that something is avoided or feared; the evitative case.
  4. Noun.  (psychology, countable) An unpleasant stimulus intended to induce a change in behaviour.

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