reluctance as a noun: - 1
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reluctance
noun
1 reluctance
2 reluctance
A certain degree of unwillingness:
— A reluctance to commit himself.
synonyms: disinclination, hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition.
Roget 603:
unwillingness
etc.
adj.;
indisposition,
indisposedness†;
disinclination,
aversation†;
nolleity†,
nolition†;
renitence†,
renitency;
reluctance;
indifference
etc.
866;
backwardness
etc.
adj.;
slowness
etc.
275;
want of alacrity,
want of readiness;
indocility
etc.
(obstinacy)
606†.
scrupulousness,
scrupulosity;
qualms of conscience,
twinge of conscience;
delicacy,
demur,
scruple,
qualm,
shrinking,
recoil;
hesitation
etc.
(irresolution)
605;
fastidiousness
etc.
868.
averseness
etc.
(dislike)
867†;
dissent
etc.
489;
refusal
etc.
764.
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Roget 867:
dislike,
distaste,
disrelish,
disinclination,
displacency†.
reluctance;
backwardness
etc.
(unwillingness)
603.
repugnance,
disgust,
queasiness,
turn,
nausea,
loathing;
averseness†,
aversation†,
aversion;
abomination,
antipathy,
abhorrence,
horror;
mortal antipathy,
rooted antipathy,
mortal horror,
rooted horror;
hatred,
detestation;
hate
etc.
898;
animosity
etc.
900;
hydrophobia;
canine madness;
byssa†,
xenophobia.
sickener†;
gall and wormwood
etc.
(unsavory)
395;
shuddering,
cold sweat.
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Dutch: weerzin, aversie, afkeer, tegenzin, balorigheid, onwil, onwilligheid
Moby thesaurus: antipathy, averseness, aversion, backwardness, capacitive reactance, cautiousness, challenge, circumspection, combative reaction, complaint, counteraction, creeping, cursoriness, defiance, deliberateness, deliberation, demur, disagreement, disinclination, dislike, disobedience, dispute, disrelish, dissent, dissentience, distaste, drawl, electric resistance, foot-dragging, fractiousness, grudging consent, grudgingness, hesitancy, idleness, impedance, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, indolence, inductive reactance, inertia, inertness, intractableness, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, languor, laziness, leisureliness, lentitude, lentor, magnetic reluctance, mutinousness, negativism, nolition, noncooperation, objection, obstinacy, ohm, ohmage, opposition, passive resistance, perfunctoriness, pokiness, protest, reactance, reaction, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, refractoriness, refusal, reluctivity, remonstrance, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repugnance, repulse, repulsion, resistance, revolt, skin effect, slackness, sloth, slowness, sluggardy, sluggishness, specific reluctance, stand, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, surface resistance, tentativeness, uncooperativeness, unenthusiasm, unwillingness, volume resistance, withstanding ... show more.
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