Reluctance

Noun

 * 1) Unwillingness to do something.
 * 2) Hesitancy in taking some action.
 * 3)  That property of a magnetic circuit analogous to resistance in an electric circuit.

Derived terms

 * reluctance motor

Related terms

 * reluctant, adjective
 * reluctantly, adverb

Adjectives for Reluctance
resentful; sullen; unfeigned; fierce; reverent; unaffected; infinite; pretty; lingering; natural; insurmountable; shuddering; evident; double; general; untamed; curious; studied.

Verbs for Reluctance
assume—; complain of—; dispel—; employ with—; feign—; harbor—; imply—; incite —; incur—; invite—; overcome—; prompt —; stifle—; —baits; —provokes; —resists; —restrains; —sharpens; —tantalizes; — whets.

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

Translations

 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: vastumeelsus
 * Finnish: vastahakoisuus, haluttomuus


 * French:
 * Russian: ,
 * Spanish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:


 * Finnish:


 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: reluktanssi


 * Russian: магнитное сопротивление (magnítnoje soprotivlénije)
 * Spanish: reluctancia magnética


 * : 犹豫
 * : reluctantia