unwillingness
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3.9
- noun
- /ʌnˈwɪlɪŋnəs/
:
reticencia
- Her unwillingness to try new things has held her back in her career.
- unwillingness to accept
- unwillingness or inability
- apparent unwillingness
We are saying to them that your unwillingness is acceptable, but it's not.
- We are saying to them that your unwillingness is acceptable, but it's not.
- It speaks to unwillingness to look at yourself in the mirror and self reflect.
- But to get back to the main point, his unwillingness to set proper boundaries creates open doors.
- And struggling to set boundaries with other people because of their deep empathy and their unwillingness to walk away or stay away.
- And one of the things that you've come back to over the years is the unwilling, the seeming unwillingness of Hollywood.
- It is it is the unwillingness of American to fight Iran that is the real issue.
- And she has a great idea, but it's her lack of power combined with their unwillingness to hear her.
- It's not aggressive, but it shows an unwillingness to ignore the fact that right now, this isn't progressing.
- Timidity of spirit, unwillingness to take risks, bitterness, despair, often even no delight of the present life.
- Logue blamed not just slumlords but quote, the unwillingness of most white Americans to share their neighborhoods with non whites.
- So it was an unwillingness to actually lead and it was a relentless desire to just keep moving forward with or without an actual team.
- Chinas historic unwillingness to take a write down along with the other nations makes an IMF LED rescue considerably more difficult to arrange.
- Forgiveness is, you see, your unwillingness to forgive another person is like you sipping the poison, waiting on them to die.
Examples
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Bruce Lee proved the doctors wrong through sheer persistence and his unwillingness to accept the feat.
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Einstein was making a comment on the unwillingness of people to think for themselves.
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And she has a great idea, but it's her lack of power combined with their unwillingness to hear her.
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What can explain this unwillingness to accept partnership, a prior condition of leadership?
Academic text (1999) -
I think it's worth saying one of the problems with depression is that unwillingness to seek out any sort of help anyway.
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I understood that this unwillingness to let go was all we had left of one another.
Fiction book (1998) -
We are saying to them that your unwillingness is acceptable, but it's not.
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Her anger over his unwillingness to save everyone on the plane was no greater than his own.
Fiction book (1991) -
And that resistance is your unwillingness to forgive yourself or see your humanity.
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The government's hostile response to feminist demands demonstrated the general unwillingness to extend the promise of liberty and equality to women.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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1.4
An act of saying you will not accept or agree to something
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3.6
A feeling of not wanting to do something or showing little interest
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4.2
A short pause before you act because you are not sure
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5.3
A short pause before doing or saying something because you feel unsure
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8.0
A feeling of not wanting to do something
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5.7
A lack of preparation or unwillingness to do something when needed
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7.7
A small feeling of not wanting to do something
Antonyms
How Willing
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word unwillingness is made of un- 'not', willing 'ready or happy to do something', and -ness 'a state or quality'. So unwillingness is the state of not being ready or not wanting to do something, in other words 'reluctance'.