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reluctance
  1. Unwillingness to do something.
  2. Hesitancy in taking some action.
  3. (physics) That property of a magnetic circuit analogous to resistance in an electric circuit.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “So it was with great reluctance that I picked up this album and put it into my car stereo.”
      “The reluctance of lawgivers to push conversion to the metric system is due mainly of these three objections by the fundamentalist lobby.”
      “Maybe there's some reluctance and weariness about going through all the motions we require a person to make before he can be President.”
reluctation
  1. (obsolete) Resistance, struggle. [16th-19th c.]
  2. (now rare) Reluctance, unwillingness. [from 16th c.]
  3. Examples:
    1. “But the very next day, by an unreasoning impulse to which he yielded almost mechanically, without reluctation, he found himself seated before the misty orb.”
reluct
  1. magnetic resistance, being equal to the ratio of magnetomotive force to magnetic flux
reluctancy
  1. Obsolete form of reluctance.
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “The two men bowed, Richard with reluctancy, the Captain with easy bonhomie.”
      “Following the understandable reluctancy of some users, entering a complete name is no longer necessary to subscribe to Progressia.”
      “Hiding his reluctancy, Cooper left his seat and advanced toward the doorway.”
reluctations
  1. plural of reluctation
reluctances
reluctancies
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