Definition of "adverseness" [ad•verse•ness]

• The state or quality of being adverse, or opposed to. (noun)

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• "Back from the mid 70s on, there has been a certain culture of risk - adverseness to some extent in the CIA that was more or less started by the Church-Pike hearings, and I think Porter wants to turn that around."
• "They are vulnerable to the fear tactics and the adverseness to change that is behind much of the opposition to"
• "If you are not able to put up a wager, you will be discouraged and prostrated by the adverseness of circumstances."