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A certain degree of unwillingness
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disinclination
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The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Disinclination \Dis*in`cli*na"tion\, n. The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. --Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike; "his disinclination for modesty is well known" [ant: inclination ] a certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "after some hesitation he agreed" [syn: reluctance , hesitancy ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1640s; see dis- + inclination .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Apart from a few fanatics, there was a general disinclination to apply the laws directed against them.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition.
Usage examples of disinclination.
Prior to the development of the spasmodic affection, there is usually a period in which the sufferer notes a want of appetite, languidness, with disinclination towards mental or bodily pursuits, headache, restlessness, pains in the limbs and joints, with irritable temper and weakness of memory.
Fire reveals its attributes of warm and dry in a behaviour which combines a tendency to dynamic expansion with a disinclination to enter into lasting combination with the other elements.
This fact, combined with her disinclination to overcome the Augustinian picture of man in herself, prevented her from taking Traherne equally seriously where he speaks as one who is endowed with a never interrupted memory of his primeval cosmic consciousness - notwithstanding the fact that Traherne himself has pointed to this side of his nature as the most significant for his fellow-men.
Now, though he was within easy hailing distance of the guard on the quarter-deck, he felt a natural disinclination to disturb those gentlemen merely for the sake of a sick convict, and knowing that, in a few minutes, the third relief would come on duty, he decided to wait until then.
I know the difficulty of obtaining belief to one's declarations of a disinclination to honors, & that it is greatest with those who still remain in the world.
Surely you will give me time to endeavour to get the better of so strong a disinclination as I have at present to this person.