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Disinclination vs Disrelish - What's the difference?

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Disinclination is a related term of disrelish.


As nouns the difference between disinclination and disrelish

is that disinclination is the state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition while disrelish is a lack of relish: distaste.

As a verb disrelish is

to have no taste for; to reject as distasteful.

disinclination

English

Noun

(-)
  • The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition.
  • disrelish

    English

    Noun

    (-)
  • A lack of relish: distaste
  • *{{quote-book, year=1690, author=John Locke, title=An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I., chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=Bread or tobacco may be neglected where they are shown to be useful to health, because of an indifferency or disrelish to them; reason and consideration at first recommends, and begins their trial, and use finds, or custom makes them pleasant. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1818, author=John Franklin, title=The Journey to the Polar Sea, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage=The residents live principally upon this most delicious fish which fortunately can be eaten a long time without disrelish . }}
  • * Burke
  • Men love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.
  • *1819 , , Otho the Great , Act IV, Scene II, verses 40-42
  • that those eyes may glow
    With wooing light upon me, ere the Morn
    Peers with disrelish , grey, barren, and cold.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1872, author=J. Fenimore Cooper, title=The Bravo, chapter=, edition= citation
  • , passage="I have no other malice against the race, Signore, than the wholesome disrelish of a Christian. }}
  • *1982 , (Lawrence Durrell), Constance'', Faber & Faber 2004 (''Avignon Quintet ), p. 685:
  • *:They heated up tinned food in a saucepan of hot water and ate it with sadness and disrelish , under the belief that they were economising.
  • Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.
  • (Milton)

    Verb

  • To have no taste for; to reject as distasteful.
  • (Alexander Pope)
  • To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.
  • (Milton)