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Disinclination definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

DISINCLINATION, n. [dis and inclination.] Want of inclination; want of propensity, desire or affection; slight dislike; aversion; expressing less than hate.
Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike; "his disinclination for modesty is well known" [ant: inclination]
2: a certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition"; "after some hesitation he agreed" [syn: reluctance, hesitancy, hesitation, disinclination, indisposition]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: 1647 a preference for avoiding something ; slight aversion

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (usu. foll. by for, or to + infin.) the absence of willingness; a reluctance (a disinclination for work; disinclination to go).

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Disinclination Dis*in`cli*na"tion, n. The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition. Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex. --Arbuthnot. Having a disinclination to books or business. --Guardian. Syn: Unwillingness; disaffection; alienation; dislike; indisposition; distaste; aversion; repugnance.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A disinclination to do something is a feeling that you do not want to do it. (FORMAL) They are showing a marked disinclination to pursue these opportunities. = reluctance ? inclination N-SING: usu N to-inf

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Indisposition, reluctance, repugnance, aversion, unwillingness.

Moby Thesaurus

antipathy, averseness, aversion, backwardness, bad books, cursoriness, disaffection, disaffinity, disagreement, disapprobation, disapproval, disfavor, dislike, disliking, disobedience, displeasure, disrelish, dissatisfaction, dissent, distaste, foot-dragging, fractiousness, grudging consent, grudgingness, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, intractableness, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, mutinousness, nolition, obstinacy, opposition, perfunctoriness, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, refractoriness, refusal, reluctance, renitence, renitency, repugnance, resistance, slowness, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, unenthusiasm, unwillingness