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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Reluctance \Re*luc"tance\ (r?-l?k"tans), Reluctancy \Re*luc"tan*cy\ (-tan-s?), noun [See {Reluctant}.]
1. The state or quality of being reluctant; repugnance; aversion of mind; unwillingness; -- often followed by an infinitive, or by to and a noun, formerly sometimes by against. ''Tempering the severity of his looks with a reluctance to the action.'' --Dryden.
Syn: Syn. See {Dislike}.
He had some reluctance to obey the summons. --Sir W. Scott.
Bear witness, Heaven, with what reluctancy Her helpless innocence I doom to die. --Dryden.
2. (Elec.) Magnetic resistance, being equal to the ratio of magnetomotive force to magnetic flux. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
reluctance
noun
1: (physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance)
2: a certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "after some hesitation he agreed" [syn: {hesitancy}, {hesitation}, {disinclination}, {indisposition}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "reluctance": antipathy, averseness, aversion, backwardness, capacitive reactance, cautiousness, challenge, circumspection, combative reaction, complaint, counteraction, creeping, cursoriness, defiance, deliberateness, deliberation, demur, disagreement, disinclination, dislike, disobedience, dispute, disrelish, dissent, dissentience, distaste, drawl, electric resistance, foot-dragging, fractiousness, grudging consent, grudgingness, hesitancy, idleness, impedance, indisposedness, indisposition, indocility, indolence, inductive reactance, inertia, inertness, intractableness, lack of enthusiasm, lack of zeal, languor, laziness, leisureliness, lentitude, lentor, magnetic reluctance, mutinousness, negativism, nolition, noncooperation, objection, obstinacy, ohm, ohmage, opposition, passive resistance, perfunctoriness, pokiness, protest, reactance, reaction, rebuff, recalcitrance, recalcitrancy, recalcitration, refractoriness, refusal, reluctivity, remonstrance, renitence, renitency, repellence, repellency, repugnance, repulse, repulsion, resistance, revolt, skin effect, slackness, sloth, slowness, sluggardy, sluggishness, specific reluctance, stand, stubbornness, sulk, sulkiness, sulks, sullenness, surface resistance, tentativeness, uncooperativeness, unenthusiasm, unwillingness, volume resistance, withstanding
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