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unwillingness

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Synonyms and Antonyms of unwillingness

a lack of willingness or desire to do or accept something

your unwillingness to help with the cooking means that you won't be sharing in the eating

Synonyms of unwillingness

disinclination, hesitance, hesitancy, reluctance, reticence

Words Related to unwillingness

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 of unwillingness

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

Antonyms of unwillingness

inclination, willingness

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