Reluctance vs Dislike – What’s the difference?

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Reluctance vs Dislike - What's the difference?
Reluctance is a related term of dislike. As nouns the difference between reluctance and dislike is that reluctance is unwillingness to do something while dislike is an attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion. As a verb dislike is (obsolete|transitive) to displease; to offend (in third-person only).

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

    dislike

    English

    Noun

    (en noun )

  • An attitude or a feeling of distaste or aversion.

    • Verb

    (dislik)

  • (obsolete) To displease; to offend. (In third-person only.)
  • *, II.12:
    • customes and conceipts differing from mine, doe not so much dislike .
  • To have a feeling of aversion or antipathy towards; not to like.

    • Usage notes

    * This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . See

    Antonyms

    * like

    See also

    * abhor
    * despise
    * detest
    * hate
    * loathe

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