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[syn: reluctance, hesitancy, hesitation, disinclination, indisposition]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Disinclination \Dis*in`cli*na"tion\, n.
The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire,
or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition.
[1913 Webster]
Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair
sex. --Arbuthnot.
[1913 Webster]
Having a disinclination to books or business.
--Guardian.
Syn: Unwillingness; disaffection; alienation; dislike;
indisposition; distaste; aversion; repugnance.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
disinclination
n 1: that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike; "his
disinclination for modesty is well known" [ant:
inclination]
2: 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]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
52 Moby Thesaurus words for "disinclination":
antipathy, averseness, aversion, backwardness, bad books,
cursoriness, disaffection, disaffinity, disagreement,
disapprobation, disapproval, disfavor, dislike, disliking,
disobedience, displeasure, disrelish, dissatisfaction, dissent,
distaste, foot-dragging, fractiousness, grudging consent,
grudgingness, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility,
intractableness, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, mutinousness,
nolition, obstinacy, opposition, perfunctoriness, recalcitrance,
recalcitrancy, refractoriness, refusal, reluctance, renitence,
renitency, repugnance, resistance, slowness, stubbornness, sulk,
sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, unenthusiasm, unwillingness