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reluctance
/ɹɪˈlʌktəns/
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What does reluctance mean?
noun
- Unwillingness to do something.
- Hesitancy in taking some action.
- That property of a magnetic circuit analogous to resistance in an electric circuit.
More meanings (1)
noun
- (archaic) Defiance, disobedience.
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IPA pronunciation
/ɹɪˈlʌktəns/
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Slowly the weary, dispirited creatures, wound their way into the room, and, with crouching reluctance, presented their baskets to be weighed.
Mrs. Kronborg felt a certain reluctance about accepting this plan, though she had not yet had time to think out her reasons.
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When he found this or that body of men anxious about their families, he yielded most generally without reluctance to their wishes.
The chief reluctance to accept clean summer fallowing as a principle of dry-farming appears chicfly among students of the Great Plains area.
I immediately declared that he was rabid, and with some reluctance on the part of his master, he was left with me.