unwillingness
/ʌnˈwɪlɪŋnəs
/noun [mass noun]
The quality or state of being unwilling to do something; reluctance: he deplored the Government’s unwillingness to provide adequate funds...
- The second reveals an unwillingness to face the commercial realities of the marketplace.
- There are frequent complaints about unwillingness to work, lack of entrepreneurialism and aversion to risk.
- Those who dislike it do so for its stubborn unwillingness to judge the two young gunmen.
Synonyms
disinclination, reluctance, slowness, lack of enthusiasm;
hesitation, hesitance, hesitancy, diffidence, coyness, timidity, timorousness, trepidation, backwardness (in coming forward);
aversion to, dislike for, distaste for;
demurral, wavering, vacillation, foot-dragging;
resistance to, objection to, opposition to;
doubts, second thoughts, scruples, qualms, pangs of conscience, misgivings
archaic disrelish
rare indisposedness, nolence, nolition, sweerness