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indisposition

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in·dis·po·si·tion  (n-dsp-zshn)
n.
1. Disinclination; unwillingness.
2. A minor ailment.
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Noun1.indisposition - a slight illness
illness, sickness, unwellness, malady - impairment of normal physiological function affecting part or all of an organism
2.indisposition - a certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition"; "after some hesitation he agreed"
disinclination, hesitancy, hesitation, reluctance
sloth, slothfulness - a disinclination to work or exert yourself
involuntariness, unwillingness - the trait of being unwilling; "his unwillingness to cooperate vetoed every proposal I made"; "in spite of our warnings he plowed ahead with the involuntariness of an automaton"
Translations
Spanish indisposition [ɪndɪspəˈzɪʃən] n → indisposición f
French indisposition [ɪndɪspəˈzɪʃən] n (= illness) → indisposition f, malaise m
Italian indisposition [ɪndɪspəˈzɪʃən] n (= illness) → indisposizione f
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Pickwick, with sundry blushes, produced the following little tale, as having been 'edited' by himself, during his recent indisposition, from his notes of Mr.
The Posthumous Papers Of The Pickwick Club by Dickens, Charles View in context
Doth any man doubt, that if there were taken out of men's minds, vain opinions, flattering hopes, false valuations, imaginations as one would, and the like, but it would leave the minds, of a number of men, poor shrunken things, full of melancholy and indisposition, and unpleasing to themselves?
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With the instinct of the true cavalryman and a particular indisposition to the discharge of firearms, he drew his saber.
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