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unwillingness

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un·will·ing  (n-wlng)
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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Noun1.unwillingnessunwillingness - 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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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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