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disinclination

dɪsɪnkləˈneɪʃən
WordNet
  1. (n) disinclination
    a certain degree of unwillingness "a reluctance to commit himself","his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition","after some hesitation he agreed"
  2. (n) disinclination
    that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike "his disinclination for modesty is well known"
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
  1. Disinclination
    The state of being disinclined; want of propensity, desire, or affection; slight aversion or dislike; indisposition. "Disappointment gave him a disinclination to the fair sex.", "Having a disinclination to books or business."
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  1. (n) disinclination
    Want of inclination; want of propensity, desire, or affection (generally implying a positive, inclination toward the opposite course or thing); slight dislike or aversion.
  2. (n) disinclination
    Synonyms Indisposition, unwillingness, reluctance, hesitation, repugnance.
Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary
  1. (n) Disinclination
    dis-in-kli-nā′shun want of inclination: unwillingness
Quotations
Eric Hoffer
Thought is a process of exaggeration. The refusal to exaggerate is not infrequently an alibi for the disinclination to think or praise.
Eric Hoffer
Usage in the news

First, an admission: I am disinclined toward duo dates. jazztimes.com

Russian public film funding rules are likely to tighten after the country's recently appointed minister of culture said he was disinclined to pay for movies about the "spiritual anguish" of directors. variety.com

Fans of the Starr Report will recall that Bill Clinton was famously disinclined to reciprocate. nationalreview.com

It's not enough to send a whole stack of measures to legislators if they're disinclined to accept their utility. governing.com

Untitled Document Politics beats a big drum in Springfield, and those disinclined to march to that drum often seek more harmonious cadences elsewhere. illinoistimes.com

Usage in scientific papers

They are analogous to the line dislocations and line disinclinations that are associated to broken translational and rotational symmetry respectively.
Finite temperature corrections and embedded strings in noncommutative geometry and the standard model with neutrino mixing

The result of this parallel transport is characterised by torsion whereas in the case of a disinclination, the result of a parallel transport around the defect is characterised by curvature.
Finite temperature corrections and embedded strings in noncommutative geometry and the standard model with neutrino mixing

For example, factoring out items on the stack, as in (1), removes from the model the disinclination for long states inherent in the original corpus.
A State-Transition Grammar for Data-Oriented Parsing

Usage in literature

It has a great disinclination to be alone. "Creative Chemistry" by Edwin E. Slosson

And lightly as Hyde had taken the challenge, he was really more disinclined to fight than Neil was. "The Bow of Orange Ribbon" by Amelia E. Barr

Once, when he was starting off to lunch with Peter Schmidt, a disinclination to leave his room and lack of appetite kept him back. "Atlantis" by Gerhart Hauptmann

Still Canrobert was disinclined to move. "The Thin Red Line; and Blue Blood" by Arthur Griffiths

This being so, he was disinclined to talk about it. "The Point Of Honor A Military Tale" by Joseph Conrad

In spite of a natural disinclination to look a gift sausage in the mouth. "Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 152, May 30, 1917" by Various

I was so greatly disinclined to stir that I let Sebright's voice go on calling my name half a dozen times from the cabin door. "Romance" by Joseph Conrad and F.M. Hueffer

Still, she overcame her disinclination to enter the house because of that. "The Debtor" by Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

I feel very disinclined to move unless I am baked out, and it takes a good deal to bake me. "Letters from Egypt" by Lucie Duff Gordon

Seeing me still disinclined to explain, she merely sighed, and was silent. "Dead Man's Rock" by Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

Usage in poetry
And HOOPER, disinclined
His trumpet to be blowing,
Yet didn't think you'd find
A milder curate going.
Then the "Waterwitch" was steered to the ship most near,
While every man resolved to sell his life most dear;
But the French commander, disinclined to commence the fight,
Ordered his men to put on a press of canvas and take to flight.