'Reluctance' definitions:
Definition of 'reluctance'
(from WordNet)
noun
(physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance)
noun
A certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition"; "after some hesitation he agreed" [syn: reluctance, hesitancy, hesitation, disinclination, indisposition]
Definition of 'Reluctance'
From: GCIDE
- Reluctance \Re*luc"tance\ (r?-l?k"tans), Reluctancy \Re*luc"tan*cy\ (-tan-s?), n. [See Reluctant.]
- 1. The state or quality of being reluctant; repugnance; aversion of mind; unwillingness; -- often followed by an infinitive, or by to and a noun, formerly sometimes by against. "Tempering the severity of his looks with a reluctance to the action." --Dryden.
- Syn: Syn. See Dislike. [1913 Webster]
- He had some reluctance to obey the summons. --Sir W. Scott. [1913 Webster]
- Bear witness, Heaven, with what reluctancy Her helpless innocence I doom to die. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Elec.) Magnetic resistance, being equal to the ratio of magnetomotive force to magnetic flux. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Synonyms of 'reluctance'
From: 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