Definition for Reluctance:

• The state of being reluctant; unwillingness; repugnance.

Synonyms for Reluctance:

• n.

  •
  • willing.
  •aversion (noun)
  • dis satisfaction,
  • dis gusts,
  • dis pleasures,
  • having no use fors,
  • dis taste,
  • dis pleasure,
  • dis-gusts,
  • dis liking,
  • dis-favors,
  • dis gust,
  • dis-pleasures,
  • dis-tastes,
  • dislikings,
  • dis likings,
  • dis favor,
  • dis-favor,
  • dis-satisfactions,
  • dis tastes,
  • dis-pleasure,
  • dis favors,
  • dis-satisfaction,
  • dis-gust,
  • dis-likings,
  • dis-liking,
  • dis-taste,
  • dis satisfactions.
  •avoidance of attention (noun)
  • low profile.
  •compunction (noun)
  • mis-giving,
  • stab conscience,
  • re morses,
  • mis giving,
  • re-morses,
  • re morse,
  • re-morse.
  •diffidence (noun)
  • timidity,
  • self-consciousness,
  • shyness,
  • insecurity,
  • in security,
  • unassertiveness,
  • timorousness,
  • mousiness,
  • sheepishness.
  •disinclination (noun)
  • hesitancy,
  • questioning.
  •dislike (noun)
  • indisposition.
  •doubt (noun)
  • skepticism,
  • waverings,
  • lack of confidence,
  • demurral,
  • agnosticism,
  • Uncertainties.
  •hardheadedness (noun)
  • willfulnesses.
  •hesitation (noun)
  • de laying,
  • dawdlings,
  • de-lays,
  • de lay,
  • de-lay,
  • de lays,
  • hemming and hawings,
  • delayings,
  • hemming hawing,
  • hemming hawings,
  • de-laying.
  •indecisiveness (noun)
  • in decisiveness,
  • in-decisivenesses,
  • in-decisiveness,
  • in decisivenesses,
  • shilly shally.
  •indisposition (noun)
  • dis order,
  • dis-order,
  • in dispositions,
  • dis-comforts,
  • in-disposition,
  • in disposition,
  • dis-comfort,
  • dis comforts,
  • dis comfort,
  • in-dispositions,
  • dis-orders,
  • dis orders.
  •low profile (noun)
  • in conspicuousness,
  • inconspicuousnesses,
  • in-conspicuousnesses,
  • low keys,
  • semi visibility,
  • semi-visibilities,
  • semi-visibility,
  • low visibilities,
  • in-conspicuousness,
  • low postures,
  • in conspicuousnesses,
  • semivisibilities,
  • semi visibilities.
  •objection (noun)
  • dis approvals,
  • counterarguments,
  • dis approval,
  • shrinkings,
  • dis contents,
  • dis approbations,
  • dis-approval,
  • demurrings,
  • dis-approbation,
  • counter-arguments,
  • dis-esteem,
  • re-monstrance,
  • re-monstrances,
  • dis approbation,
  • counter argument,
  • dis esteems,
  • re monstrance,
  • dis esteem,
  • dis-contents,
  • counter arguments,
  • dis-esteems,
  • dis-approbations,
  • dis-content,
  • dis-approvals,
  • re monstrances,
  • dis content.
  •obstinacy (noun)
  • perverseness,
  • pertinaciousness,
  • tenaciousness,
  • obstinance,
  • obstinateness,
  • pigheadedness,
  • hardheadedness.
  •phenomenon (noun)
  • reluctance.
  •qualm (noun)
  • mis doubt,
  • un-easinesses,
  • mis-doubts,
  • fore bodings,
  • pre-sentiment,
  • un-easiness,
  • fore boding,
  • un eases,
  • mis-doubt,
  • un-ease,
  • un easiness,
  • un-eases,
  • mis doubts,
  • pre-sentiments,
  • fore-boding,
  • pre sentiments.
  •reserve (noun)
  • un-responsivenesses,
  • un responsivenesses,
  • un responsiveness,
  • re serves,
  • un-responsiveness,
  • selfrestraint,
  • re-serves,
  • re serve,
  • re-serve,
  • self restraint.
  •scruple (noun)
  • reconsideration,
  • superego,
  • reconsiderations,
  • scruples,
  • Superegos.
  •taciturnity (noun)
  • selfcontrol.
  •uncommunicativeness (noun)
  • un communicativenesses,
  • un-communicativeness,
  • un communicativeness,
  • un-communicativenesses.
  •unwillingness (noun)
  • opposition,
  • contrariness,
  • distaste,
  • balkiness,
  • noncooperation,
  • stubbornness,
  • repugnance,
  • Repellency,
  • defiance.

• Other synonyms:

  •Other relevant words:
  • con amore,
  • ohmage,
  • concern,
  • idleness,
  • falter,
  • Reluctancy,
  • discomfort,
  • leisureliness,
  • refusal,
  • complaint,
  • regret,
  • abhorrence,
  • capacitive reactance,
  • sullenness,
  • second thoughts,
  • with open arms,
  • queasiness,
  • passive resistance,
  • reactance,
  • loathing,
  • Recalcitration,
  • hedging,
  • Indocility,
  • freely,
  • rebuff,
  • vacillation,
  • antipathy,
  • cautiousness,
  • apprehension,
  • heart and soul,
  • revulsion,
  • sloth,
  • pokiness,
  • dissentience,
  • reticence,
  • indolence,
  • sluggishness,
  • misgiving,
  • negativism,
  • squeamishness,
  • Perfunctoriness,
  • illness,
  • disobedience,
  • Aversation,
  • antagonism,
  • drawl,
  • reservation,
  • pertinacity,
  • creeping,
  • odium,
  • reaction,
  • stand,
  • worry,
  • to and fro,
  • Sluggardy,
  • slackness,
  • Grudgingness,
  • uncooperativeness,
  • funny feeling,
  • wavering,
  • Disrelish,
  • remonstrance,
  • disaffection,
  • skin effect,
  • reluctivity,
  • protest,
  • slowness,
  • horror,
  • sulkiness,
  • counteraction,
  • pang,
  • second thought,
  • inertness,
  • unenthusiasm,
  • Lentitude,
  • Withstanding,
  • recalcitrancy,
  • Averseness,
  • deliberateness,
  • Indisposedness,
  • combative reaction,
  • Renitence,
  • Involuntariness,
  • Nolition,
  • circumspection,
  • Mutinousness,
  • indifference,
  • uneasiness,
  • ailment,
  • apprehensiveness,
  • difficulty,
  • dislike,
  • repulse,
  • withholding,
  • Nolleity,
  • demur,
  • fain,
  • intractableness,
  • conscience,
  • fractiousness,
  • repulsion,
  • Repugnancy,
  • challenge,
  • fear,
  • Repellence,
  • Sulks,
  • magnetic reluctance,
  • impedance,
  • deliberation,
  • animosity,
  • languor,
  • sinking feeling,
  • as lief,
  • faltering,
  • perversity,
  • uncertainty,
  • ohm,
  • scruple,
  • Renitency,
  • holding back,
  • refractoriness,
  • recalcitrance,
  • keeping back,
  • revolt,
  • foot-dragging,
  • nothing loth,
  • dissent,
  • dispute,
  • Cursoriness,
  • heart in hand,
  • disagreement,
  • inertia,
  • abomination,
  • graciously,
  • hostility,
  • laziness,
  • sulk,
  • with pleasure,
  • willingly,
  • electric resistance,
  • disgust,
  • contraindication,
  • Lentor,
  • twinge.

Paraphrases for Reluctance:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    unwillingness, hesitancy, hesitation.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    stamina, dislike, rejection, Refrainment, restraint, resilience, failure, resentment, disgust, reservation, eagerness, diffidence, procrastination, revulsion, scepticism, readiness, resistor, resiliency, denial, Refusing, objection, antipathy, caution, endurance, renunciation, desire, enthusiasm.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    reticence, refusal, resistance, aversion, willingness, vacillation, opposition, timidity, slackness.

Antonyms for Reluctance:

• n.

  • Other antonyms:
    conviction, assuredness, certitude, assurance, surety, positiveness, inclination, sureness, certainty.

Reluctance Sentence Examples:

• He pulled an envelope out of his pocket and opened it; not without reluctance.

• If anything had been wanting to prove how agreeable it had been, it appeared now in the pretty reluctance with which the ladies rose.

Homophones for Reluctance:

• relegating, relistening.

Hyponym for Reluctance:

• n.

  • phenomenon
    electrical phenomenon.