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What does reluctance mean?

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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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Maybe there's some reluctance and weariness about going through all the motions we require a person to make before he can be President.
However, for a long time the residents showed a reluctance to lift the blockade.
Against Syracuse, though, Cleaves had to ream Peterson at halftime for his reluctance to assert himself.
There is a remarkable reluctance among mainstream scientists and doctors to challenge junk science and expose its dangers, which are substantial.
The reluctance of lawgivers to push conversion to the metric system is due mainly of these three objections by the fundamentalist lobby.
This silence, I think, derives from a historical tradition emphasizing solidarity, a reluctance to break ranks.

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