RELUCTANCE as NOUN

1. Meaning
   • a certain degree of unwillingness
   Synonym(s)
   • disinclination (what does disinclination mean?)
   • hesitancy (what does hesitancy mean?)
   • hesitation (what does hesitation mean?)
   • indisposition (what does indisposition mean?)
   Usage Example(s)
   • a reluctance to commit himself
   • after some hesitation he agreed
   Hypernyms(s) reluctance is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • unwillingness (what does unwillingness mean?)
   Hyponym(s)
   • sloth (what does sloth mean?)
   • slothfulness (what does slothfulness mean?)
   Derived(s)
   • indispose (what does indispose mean?)
   • disincline (what does disincline mean?)
   • indispose (what does indispose mean?)
   • disincline (what does disincline mean?)
   • hesitate (what does hesitate mean?)
   • waver (what does waver mean?)
   • waffle (what does waffle mean?)
   • hesitate (what does hesitate mean?)
   • waver (what does waver mean?)
   • waffle (what does waffle mean?)
2. Meaning
   • (physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance)
   Hypernyms(s) reluctance is a kind of… Example: animal is a hypernym of mammal, plant is a hypernym of flower
   • electrical phenomenon (what does electrical phenomenon mean?)