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Repugnancy vs Reluctance - What's the difference?

repugnancy | reluctance | Related terms |

Repugnancy is a related term of reluctance.


As nouns the difference between repugnancy and reluctance

is that repugnancy is the quality or property of being repugnant while reluctance is unwillingness to do something.

repugnancy

English

Noun

  • The quality or property of being repugnant.
    • Let the foes quietly cut their throats, / Without repugnancy . — Shakespeare.

    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