Usually means: Refusal to accept or comply.
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We found 17 dictionaries that define the word unwillingness:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. unwillingness: Merriam-Webster
  2. unwillingness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. unwillingness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. unwillingness: Vocabulary.com
  5. Unwillingness, unwillingness: Wordnik
  6. unwillingness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. unwillingness: Wiktionary
  8. unwillingness: Dictionary.com
  9. unwillingness: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. unwillingness: Rhymezone
  11. unwillingness: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  12. unwillingness: FreeDictionary.org
  13. unwillingness: Mnemonic Dictionary
  14. unwillingness: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. unwillingness: Legal dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (unwillingness)

▸ noun:  The property of being unwilling.

Similar:
unwilfulness, unamenability, unwillfulness, unresistingness, loathness, unwelcomingness, unwantedness, indisposition, unobligingness, unwariness, more...

Opposite:
willingness, eagerness, enthusiasm, readiness

Types:
reluctance, indifference, resistance, more...

Phrases:
unwillingness to accept reality, with hesitation or unwillingness, opposite of unwillingness, unwillingness to change, complete unwillingness, more...

Adjectives:
general, great, apparent, own, extreme, natural, stubborn, evident, much, american, certain

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Similar:
unwilfulness, unamenability, unwillfulness, unresistingness, loathness, unwelcomingness, unwantedness, indisposition, unobligingness, unwariness, more...

Opposite:
willingness, eagerness, enthusiasm, readiness

Types:
reluctance, indifference, resistance, more...

Phrases:
unwillingness to accept reality, with hesitation or unwillingness, opposite of unwillingness, unwillingness to change, complete unwillingness, some unwillingness, unwillingness to participate, more...

Adjectives:
general, great, apparent, own, extreme, natural, stubborn, evident, much, american, certain



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