unwillingness

un·will·ing (

n-w

ng)

adj.

1. Not willing; hesitant or loath: unwilling to face facts.

2. Done, given, or said reluctantly: unwilling consent.

un·willing·ly adv.

un·willing·ness n.

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Noun

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"

involuntariness

disposition, temperament - your usual mood; "he has a happy disposition"

disinclination, hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition, reluctance - a certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition"; "after some hesitation he agreed"

resistance - (psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness

willingness - cheerful compliance; "he expressed his willingness to help"

unwillingness

noun reluctance, resistance, refusal, opposition, objection, aversion, slowness, backwardness, diffidence, coyness, disinclination their unwillingness to accept responsibility for mistakes

Translations

unwillingness [ˈʌnˈwɪlɪŋnɪs] N → falta f de inclinación, desgana f
his unwillingness to help us → lo poco dispuesto que está/estaba a ayudarnos, su desgana para ayudarnos

unwillingness

n → Widerwillen nt, → Weigerung f; their unwillingness to compromise → ihre mangelnde Kompromissbereitschaft

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disinclination
disposition
Fanatism
Grudgingness
hesitancy
hesitation
indisposition
Inexorability
Inexorableness
Involuntariness
linger over
Loathness
mercilessness
Nolition
refuse
Refuser
relentlessness
reluctance

Willoughby's behaviour in taking leave of them, his embarrassment,and affectation of cheerfulness, and, above all, his unwillingness to accept her mother's invitation, a backwardness so unlike a lover,so unlike himself, greatly disturbed her.

Sense and Sensibility by Austen, Jane View in context

I have observed that you have, in common with my two other friends, an unwillingness to hear the least mention of your own virtues; that, as a great poet says of one of you, (he might justly have said it of all three), you

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context

" He left the room, and Catherine, with a disappointed, anxious face, began to speak of her unwillingness that he should be taking them out of doors against his own inclination, under a mistaken idea of pleasing her; but she was stopped by Miss Tilney's saying, with a little confusion, "I believe it will be wisest to take the morning while it is so fine; and do not be uneasy on my father's account; he always walks out at this time of day.

Northanger Abbey by Austen, Jane View in context

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