Dictionary Definition
disinclination
Noun
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"; "after some hesitation he agreed"
[syn: reluctance,
hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -eɪʃǝn
Noun
- The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition.
Translations
the state of being disinclined
- Finnish: vastahakoisuus, haluttomuus
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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