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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INDISPOSI'TION, n.
1. Disinclination; aversion; unwillingness; dislike; as the indisposition of men to submit to severe discipline; an indisposition to abandon vicious practices.
A general indisposition towards believing.
2. Slight disorder of the healthy functions of the body; tendency to disease. Indisposition is a slight defect of healthy action in bodily functions, rather than settled or marked disease.
3. Want of tendency or natural appetency or affinity; as the indisposition of two substances to combine.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a slight illness
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: 15th century the condition of being indisposed: a. disinclination b. a usually slight illness

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 ill health, a slight or temporary ailment. 2 disinclination. 3 aversion. Etymology: F indisposition or IN-(1) + DISPOSITION

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Indisposition In*dis`po*si"tion, n. [Cf. F. indisposition.] 1. The state of being indisposed; disinclination; as, the indisposition of two substances to combine. A general indisposition towards believing. --Atterbury. 2. A slight disorder or illness. Rather as an indisposition in health than as any set sickness. --Hayward.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Disinclination, unwillingness, reluctance, dislike, aversion, backwardness. 2. Illness, sickness, ailment, poor health.

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