reluctance

reluctance

noun

Definition of RELUCTANCE

a lack of willingness or desire to do or accept something <the mice showed an odd reluctance to eat the cheese we had put out for them>

Synonyms disinclination, hesitance, hesitancy, reticence, unwillingness

Related Words faltering, fence-sitting, hesitation, indecision, irresolution, shilly-shallying, staggering, vacillation, wavering, wobbling (also wabbling); distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, incertitude, misdoubt, misgiving, mistrust, mistrustfulness, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainness, uncertainty

Near Antonyms assurance, assuredness, certainty, certitude, conviction, positiveness, sureness, surety

Antonyms inclination, willingness