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reluctance | reluct | Derived terms |

Reluctance is a derived term of reluct.


As a noun reluctance

is unwillingness to do something.

As a verb reluct is

to be averse to.

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

    reluct

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To be averse to.
  • * {{quote-book, 1639 citation
    • , passage=He was by nature highly passionate, but more apt to reluct at the excesses of it.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 1839, title=New Year's Eve, author=Charles Lamb
    • , passage=I care not to be carried with the tide, that smoothly bears human life to eternity; and reluct at the inevitable course of destiny.}}
  • * {{quote-book, 1879, title=Sermons preached in the church of the first religious society in Roxbury, author=George Putnam
    • , passage=[M]iracles, if you accept them, will not help it very much; or if you reluct at them, and ignore them, your faith remains unshaken and entire.}}

    Derived terms

    *reluctant, reluctance