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.
  •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)
  • scruple,
  • superego,
  • Superegos,
  • reconsiderations,
  • reconsideration,
  • scruples,
  • Reluctancy,
  • squeamishness.
  •taciturnity (noun)
  • selfcontrol.
  •uncommunicativeness (noun)
  • un communicativenesses,
  • un-communicativeness,
  • un communicativeness,
  • un-communicativenesses.
  •unwillingness (noun)
  • noncooperation,
  • Averseness,
  • stubbornness,
  • contrariness,
  • Repellency,
  • repugnance,
  • distaste,
  • balkiness,
  • defiance,
  • opposition.

• Other synonyms:

  •n.
  • aversion,
  • backwardness,
  • compunction,
  • diffidence,
  • disinclination,
  • doubt,
  • fumbling,
  • hatred,
  • hesitance,
  • hesitation,
  • inconspicuousness,
  • indecisiveness,
  • irresoluteness,
  • irresolution,
  • mulishness,
  • negativity,
  • niggle,
  • objection,
  • obstinacy,
  • procrastination,
  • protestation,
  • punctiliousness,
  • qualm,
  • reserve,
  • resistance,
  • rue,
  • shillyshally,
  • stumbling,
  • taciturnity,
  • timidness,
  • uncommunicativeness,
  • unwillingness,
  • willfulness,
  • Loathness,
  • Remonstration,
  • counterargument,
  • Hates,
  • tentativeness,
  • low-profile,
  • counter-argument,
  • fumblings,
  • having no use for,
  • hemming and hawing,
  • lack of desire,
  • lack of enthusiasm,
  • low key,
  • procrastinations,
  • stab of conscience,
  • stumblings,
  • to-and-fro,
  • low posture,
  • low visibility,
  • semivisibility.

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.