Disinclination

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disinclination \Dis*in`cli*na"tion\, n.
     The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire,
     or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair


           sex.                                     --Arbuthnot.
     [1913 Webster]
  
           Having a disinclination to books or business.
                                                    --Guardian.
  
     Syn: Unwillingness; disaffection; alienation; dislike;
          indisposition; distaste; aversion; repugnance.
          [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disinclination
       n 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}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  52 Moby Thesaurus words for "disinclination":
     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