DISINCLINATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disinclination mean? 

• DISINCLINATION (noun)
  The noun DISINCLINATION has 2 senses:

1. that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike

2. a certain degree of unwillingness

  Familiarity information: DISINCLINATION used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISINCLINATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

That toward which you are inclined to feel dislike

Classified under:

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions

Context example:

his disinclination for modesty is well known

Hypernyms ("disinclination" is a kind of...):

dislike (a feeling of aversion or antipathy)

Antonym:

inclination (that toward which you are inclined to feel a liking)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A certain degree of unwillingness

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Synonyms:

disinclination; hesitancy; hesitation; indisposition; reluctance

Context example:

after some hesitation he agreed

Hypernyms ("disinclination" is a kind of...):

involuntariness; unwillingness (the trait of being unwilling)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "disinclination"):

sloth; slothfulness (a disinclination to work or exert yourself)

Derivation:

disincline (make unwilling)

 Context examples 

And even Mary could assure her family that she had no disinclination for it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

Grant laughingly congratulated Miss Crawford on feeling no disinclination to the state herself.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

This sensation of listlessness, weariness, stupidity, this disinclination to sit down and employ myself, this feeling of every thing's being dull and insipid about the house!

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

His aversion to women and his disinclination to form new friendships were both typical of his unemotional character, but not more so than his complete suppression of every reference to his own people.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But I daresay it may have come to your notice that, counterfoil of another man’s message, there may be some disinclination on the part of the officials to oblige you.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He did not like the laziness and the disinclination for sober, legitimate work of this prospective son-in-law of his, for whose ideas he had no respect and of whose nature he had no understanding.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

She persisted in a very determined, though very silent disinclination for Bath; caught the first dim view of the extensive buildings, smoking in rain, without any wish of seeing them better; felt their progress through the streets to be, however disagreeable, yet too rapid; for who would be glad to see her when she arrived?

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

Mrs. Dashwood remained at Norland several months; not from any disinclination to move when the sight of every well known spot ceased to raise the violent emotion which it produced for a while; for when her spirits began to revive, and her mind became capable of some other exertion than that of heightening its affliction by melancholy remembrances, she was impatient to be gone, and indefatigable in her inquiries for a suitable dwelling in the neighbourhood of Norland; for to remove far from that beloved spot was impossible.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

There was no natural disinclination to be overcome, and I see no reason why a man should make a worse clergyman for knowing that he will have a competence early in life.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

She felt that she had no business at Pemberley, and was obliged to assume a disinclination for seeing it.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)