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What does reluctance mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word reluctance? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. Unwillingness to do something.
  2. Hesitancy in taking some action.
  3. (physics) That property of a magnetic circuit analogous to resistance in an electric circuit.
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With great reluctance the Union admits new members who write in Russian, openly emphasizing the preference for writers who write in Kazakh.
Does this help explain current concerns such as England's reluctance to be absorbed in the European Union?
Many of those who voted in favour did so with a reluctance somewhat aside from the military arguments.
We are striking with extreme reluctance and keeping our fingers crossed that somebody can pull a rabbit out of the hat to solve the problem.
This silence, I think, derives from a historical tradition emphasizing solidarity, a reluctance to break ranks.
Against Syracuse, though, Cleaves had to ream Peterson at halftime for his reluctance to assert himself.

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