What is another word for disinclination?

Pronunciation: [dˌɪsɪnklɪnˈe͡ɪʃən] (IPA)

Disinclination, also known as aversion, reluctance, or repugnance, is the feeling of not wanting to do something. It can be accompanied by a lack of enthusiasm or interest. Other synonyms for disinclination include hesitance, hesitation, doubt, and reservation. These words suggest a more natural or instinctive opposition to a particular action or idea. Dislike, antipathy, loathing, and detestation are also synonyms that imply strong feelings of aversion or hostility. On the other hand, apathy, indifference, and nonchalance suggest a lack of interest or concern altogether. Regardless of the exact word chosen, all of these synonyms describe an emotion or attitude that inhibits motivation and action.

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What are the opposite words for disinclination?

Disinclination is a word that describes a lack of desire, willingness, or motivation to do something. The antonyms for disinclination are zeal, eagerness, enthusiasm, fondness, willingness, and desire. Zeal refers to a strong feeling of enthusiasm or eagerness towards something, while eagerness is the state of being enthusiastic or keenly interested. Enthusiasm refers to intense excitement or fervor towards something. Fondness implies a strong liking or affection for something or someone, while willingness shows a readiness to act or accommodate others' wishes. Desire refers to a strong feeling of wishing or longing to possess something or do something. These antonyms of disinclination can be used in various contexts to convey different meanings.

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Usage examples for Disinclination

Yet his disinclination to spend money was made subservient to his sense of justice; and a spirit of matter-of-fact integrity that he carried round with him made the Wirree people regard him with suspicious awe.
"The Pioneers"
Katharine Susannah Prichard
His stubborn insistence on the Phantom's guilt could be the result of mental laziness and a disinclination to exert himself over a case which did not interest him.
"The Gray Phantom's Return"
Herman Landon
Almost needless to say his apparent indolence and disinclination to any steady, methodical system of study were, as his son, the late Sir William Stokes, records in his biography of his father, sources of real concern to his parents, and caused his mother specially much anxious thought.
"Makers of Modern Medicine"
James J. Walsh

Famous quotes with Disinclination

  • Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
    Douglas Adams
  • Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
    Douglas Adams
  • I pay very little regard...to what any young person says on the subject of marriage. If they profess a disinclination for it, I only set it down that they have not yet seen the right person.
    Jane Austen
  • All the Hellenistic States had thus been completely subjected to the protectorate of Rome, and the whole empire of Alexander the Great had fallen to the Roman commonwealth just as if the city had inherited it from his heirs. From all sides kings and ambassadors flocked to Rome to congratulate her; they showed that fawning is never more abject than when kings are in the antechamber...w:Polybius dates from the battle of Pydna the full establishment of the universal empire of Rome. It was in fact the last battle in which a civilized state confronted Rome in the field on a footing of equality with her as a great power; all subsequent struggles were rebellions or wars with peoples beyond the pale of the Romano-Greek civilization -- with barbarians, as they were called. The whole civilized world thenceforth recognized in the Roman senate the supreme tribunal, whose commissions decided in the last resort between kings and nations; and to acquire its language and manners foreign princes and youths of quality resided in Rome. A clear and earnest attempt to get rid of this dominion was in reality made only once -- by the great Mithradates of Pontus. The battle of pydna, moreover, marks the last occasion on which the senate still adhered to the state-maxim that that they should, if possible, hold no possessions and maintain no garrisons beyond the Italian seas, but should keep the numerous states dependent on them in order by a mere political supremacy. The aim aim of their policy was that these states should neither decline into utter weakness and anarchy, as had nevertheless happened in Greece nor emerge out of their half-free position into complete independence, as Macedonia had attempted to do without success. No state was to be allowed to utterly perish, but no one was to be permitted to stand on its own resources... Indications of a change of system, and of an increasing disinclination on the part of Rome to tolerate by its side intermediate states even in such independence as was possible for them, were clearly given in the destruction of the Macedonian monarchy after the battle of Pydna, the more and more frequent and more unavoidable the intervention in the internal affairs of the petty Greek states through their misgovernment, and their political and social anarchy, the disarming of Macedonia, where the Northern forntier at any rate urgently required a defence different from that of mere posts; and, lastly, the introduction of the payment of land-tax to Rome from Macedonia and Illyria, were so many symptoms of the approaching conversion of the client states into subjects of Rome.
    Theodor Mommsen
  • The majority of mankind is lazy-minded, incurious, absorbed in vanities, and tepid in emotion, and is therefore incapable of either much doubt or much faith; and when the ordinary man calls himself a sceptic or an unbeliever, that is ordinarily a simple pose, cloaking a disinclination to think anything out to a conclusion.
    T. S. Eliot

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