noun

• The quality or state of being unwilling to do something; reluctance.

  ‘he deplored the Government's unwillingness to provide adequate funds’

  More example sentences

  • ‘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.’
  • ‘The federal government's unwillingness to take action has left it up to states.’
  • ‘Yet it is these very same people who have buried the community centre through their unwillingness to lift a finger to help out.’

  Synonyms

  disinclination, reluctance, slowness, lack of enthusiasm

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