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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

RELUCT'ANCE,
RELUCT'ANCY, n. [literally a straining or striving against.]
Unwillingness; great opposition of mind; repugnance; with to or against; as, to undertake a war with reluctance. He has a great reluctance to this measure.
Bear witness, heav'n with what reluctancy her helpless innocence I doom to die.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: (physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance)
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: 1629 1. the quality or state of being reluctant 2. the opposition offered in a magnetic circuit to magnetic flux; specifically the ratio of the magnetic potential difference to the corresponding flux

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Reluctance Re*luc"tance, n. (Elec.) Magnetic resistance, being equal to the ratio of magnetomotive force to magnetic flux.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Reluctance Re*luc"tance (r?-l?k"tans), Reluctancy Re*luc"tan*cy (-tan-s?), n. [See Reluctant.] The state or quality of being reluctant; repugnance; aversion of mind; unwillingness; -- often followed by an infinitive, or by to and a noun, formerly sometimes by against. ``Tempering the severity of his looks with a reluctance to the action.'' --Dryden. He had some reluctance to obey the summons. --Sir W. Scott. Bear witness, Heaven, with what reluctancy Her helpless innocence I doom to die. --Dryden. Syn: Syn. See Dislike.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

see reluctant

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. Repugnance, unwillingness, aversion, dislike, disinclination.

Moby Thesaurus

antipathy, averseness, aversion, backwardness, capacitive reactance, cautiousness, challenge, circumspection, combative reaction, complaint, counteraction, creeping, cursoriness, defiance, deliberateness, deliberation, demur, disagreement, disinclination, dislike, disobedience, dispute, disrelish, dissent, dissentience, distaste, drawl, electric resistance, foot-dragging, fractiousness, grudging consent, grudgingness, hesitancy, idleness, impedance, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, indolence, inductive reactance, inertia, inertness, intractableness, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, languor, laziness, leisureliness, lentitude, lentor, magnetic reluctance, mutinousness, negativism, nolition, noncooperation, objection, obstinacy, ohm, ohmage, opposition, passive resistance, perfunctoriness, pokiness, protest, reactance, reaction, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, refractoriness, refusal, reluctivity, remonstrance, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repugnance, repulse, repulsion, resistance, revolt, skin effect, slackness, sloth, slowness, sluggardy, sluggishness, specific reluctance, stand, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, surface resistance, tentativeness, uncooperativeness, unenthusiasm, unwillingness, volume resistance, withstanding