reluctance | Definition of reluctance

Synonyms and Antonyms 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 of reluctance

disinclination, hesitance, hesitancy, reticence, unwillingness

Words Related to reluctance

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 reluctance

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

Antonyms of reluctance

inclination, willingness