averseness

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)The quality of being averse; opposition of mind.

   “Oh the stubburnnesse of iniquitie, and mans auersenesse from his maker.”

   “[…] the Fondness or Averseness of the Child to some Servants […] will at any time let one know, whether their Love to the Baby is uniform and the same, when one is absent, as present.”

   “There were tones in it [his fiddling] which bred the immediate conviction that indolence and averseness to systematic application were all that lay between 'Mop' and the career of a second [Niccolò] Paganini.”