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Homophobia can be defined as 'the fear of, aversion to, or discrimination against homosexuality or homosexuals' (Merriam Webster's Medical Dictionary 2007).
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Coulrophobia: morbid, irrational fear of or aversion to clowns.
As a metaphor for fear of commitment, the aversion to touch makes sense.
Simple landscaping tricks, like creating a hedge around a pond, keep geese away by playing on their natural fear of predators and aversion to areas that don't have clear sightlines.
The creative fields have long had their shadowy practitioners, figures whose identities, whether because of scandalous content (the author of "Story of O"), fear of ostracism (Joe Klein), aversion to nepotism (Stephen King's son Joe Hill), or conceptual necessity (Sacha Baron Cohen), remain, at least for a time, unknown.
The notion of fear, aversion to needles and concerns regarding consequences of injecting were commonly noted as a major deterrent to IDU: "I've used the majority of the drugs out there.
Many adults live with feelings of fear, aversion, boredom, and sometimes an ardent longing, directed at a blankness — a mental picture, from which the central image has been effaced.
These, then, are the necessary features of a free society that knows itself by the liberalism of fear: (1) aversion from cruelty, and legal recourse against it; (2) checks by the people, incorporated in government, against the abuse of power by government; (3) open and uncoerced public discussion of public affairs; (4) well-maintained prohibitions against the invasion of privacy.
In the human brain, dopamine signals pleasure and reward but in flies it does the exact opposite: it is the messenger of fear and aversion.
Hanno knew that they all expected him to appear in public someday, too, and to perform, to prepare each word and gesture, with everyone staring at him — and at the thought, he closed his eyes with a shudder of fear and aversion.
"We as Americans have avoided the topic [of white nationalist movements] out of a mix of ignorance, fear, and aversion," Chideya wrote.
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