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Reluctance vs Vitriolic - What's the difference?

reluctance | vitriolic |

As a noun reluctance

is unwillingness to do something.

As an adjective vitriolic is

of, derived from, or similar to a vitriol.

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

    vitriolic

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • of, derived from, or similar to a vitriol
  • bitterly scathing; caustic: vitriolic criticism
  • (chemistry): Of or pertaining to vitriol; derived from, or resembling, vitriol; vitriolous; as, a vitriolic taste.

    • See also

    * Vitriolic acid * sulphuric acid * vitriol