| misgiving | | |
| n. (feeling) | 1. misgiving, qualm, scruple | uneasiness about the fitness of an action. |
| ~ anxiety | a vague unpleasant emotion that is experienced in anticipation of some (usually ill-defined) misfortune. |
| n. (cognition) | 2. apprehension, misgiving | painful expectation. |
| ~ expectation, outlook, prospect | belief about (or mental picture of) the future. |
| n. (cognition) | 3. distrust, misgiving, mistrust, suspicion | doubt about someone's honesty. |
| ~ doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty | the state of being unsure of something. |
| reluctance | | |
| n. (phenomenon) | 1. reluctance | (physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance). |
| ~ natural philosophy, physics | the science of matter and energy and their interactions.; "his favorite subject was physics" |
| ~ electrical phenomenon | a physical phenomenon involving electricity. |
| n. (attribute) | 2. disinclination, hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition, reluctance | a certain degree of unwillingness.; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition"; "after some hesitation he agreed" |
| ~ sloth, slothfulness | a disinclination to work or exert yourself. |
| ~ involuntariness, unwillingness | the trait of being unwilling.; "his unwillingness to cooperate vetoed every proposal I made"; "in spite of our warnings he plowed ahead with the involuntariness of an automaton" |
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