different between aversion vs mislike

English

Etymology

From Middle French aversion, from Latin ?versi?. Doublet of aversio.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??v???n/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??v??n/
• Hyphenation: aver?sion

Noun

aversion (countable and uncountable, plural aversions)

1. Opposition or repugnance of mind; fixed dislike.

   Synonyms: antipathy, disinclination, reluctance

2. An object of dislike or repugnance.

   Synonym: abomination

3. (obsolete) The act of turning away from an object.

Related terms

• averse
• avert

Translations

See also

• adverse

Anagrams

• vairones, veraison

Finnish

Noun

aversion

1. Genitive singular form of aversio.

Anagrams

• versiona

French

Etymology

From Latin aversionem

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.v??.sj??/

Noun

aversion f (plural aversions)

1. aversion

English

Etymology

From Middle English misliken, from Old English misl?cian (“to displease, disquiet”); corresponding to mis- +? like. Cognate with Old High German missel?ch?n (“to displease”), Swedish misslika, Icelandic mislíka (“to dislike”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /m??sl??k/

Verb

mislike (third-person singular simple present mislikes, present participle misliking, simple past and past participle misliked)

1. (archaic) To displease. [from 9th c.]
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.viii:

     Mote not mislike you also to abate / Your zealous hast, till morrow next againe / Both light of heauen, and strength of men relate [...].

2. To dislike; to disapprove of; to have aversion to. [from 13th c.]
   • I. Taylor

     Who may like or mislike what he says.

   • 1932, Lewis Grassic Gibbon, Sunset Song, Polygon 2006 (A Scots Quair), p. 130:

     And she found she didn't mislike him any longer, she felt queer and strange to him, not feared […] .

   • 2009, Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall, Fourth Estate 2010, p. 492:

     ‘Much as we may mislike her talk of the late cardinal appearing to her, and devils in her bedchamber, she speaks in this way because she has been taught to ape the claims of certain nuns who went before her […] .’

Derived terms

• misliker

Anagrams

• Mileski, milkies

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse mislíka

Verb

mislike (imperative mislik, present tense misliker, simple past mislikte, past participle mislikt, present participle mislikende)

1. to dislike

References

• “mislike” in The Bokmål Dictionary.