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English
Etymology
From reluct + -ance.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɹɪˈlʌktəns/
- Hyphenation: re‧luc‧tance
Noun
reluctance (countable and uncountable, plural reluctances)
- Unwillingness to do something.
Our new dog shows reluctance to go on walks, preferring to be indoors.
- Hesitancy in taking some action.
- (archaic) Defiance, disobedience.
1667, John Milton, “Book IX”, in Paradise Lost. , London: [Samuel Simmons], , →OCLC; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: , London: Basil Montagu Pickering , 1873, →OCLC, lines 1041–6:No more be mention’d then of violence / Against our selves, and wilful barrenness, / That cuts us off fom hope, and favours onely / Rancor and pride, impatience and despite, / Reluctance against God and his just yoke / Laid on our Necks.
- (physics) That property of a magnetic circuit analogous to resistance in an electric circuit.
1903, The Electrical World and Engineer, volume 42, page 369:That is to say, the total number of ampere-hours, including the drop of gilbertage, due to magnetic flux traversing the reluctance of the circuit, must be equal to zero.
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Translations
unwillingness to do something
hesitancy in taking some action
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