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Reluctance vs Disgust - What's the difference?

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Reluctance is a related term of disgust.


As nouns the difference between reluctance and disgust

is that reluctance is unwillingness to do something while disgust is an intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.

As a verb disgust is

to cause an intense dislike for something.

reluctance

English

Noun

  • Unwillingness to do something.
  • Hesitancy in taking some action.
  • (physics) That property of a magnetic circuit analogous to resistance in an electric circuit.

    • Derived terms

    * reluctance motor

    Related terms

    * reluctant, adjective * reluctantly, adverb

    disgust

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To cause an intense dislike for something.
    • It disgusts me, to see her chew with her mouth open.
  • * 1874 , (Marcus Clarke), (For the Term of His Natural Life) Chapter V
    • It is impossible to convey, in words, any idea of the hideous phantasmagoria of shifting limbs and faces which moved through the evil-smelling twilight of this terrible prison-house. Callot might have drawn it, Dante might have suggested it, but a minute attempt to describe its horrors would but disgust . There are depths in humanity which one cannot explore, as there are mephitic caverns into which one dare not penetrate.

    Noun

    (wikipedia disgust) (-)
  • An intense dislike or loathing someone feels for something bad or nasty.
    • With an air of disgust , she stormed out of the room.

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