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unwillingness

unwillingness noun: the property of being unwilling.

Noun

unwillingness (countable and uncountable, plural unwillingnesses)

  1. The property of being unwilling.
    • In the second extract, the teacher formulated Anna's resistance as reported by Tonie as a prewillingness rather than unwillingness. She constructed Anna's prewillingness as founded in her precompetence, rather than incompetence.2005, Helena Austin, Bronwyn Dwyer, Peter Freebody, Schooling the Child: The Making of Students in Classrooms

unwillingness meaning in Malayalam

unwillingness in Malayalam

reluctance, disinclination, hesitation
മനസ്സില്ലായ്മ, വിമുഖത, അസന്നദ്ധത, വെെമനസ്യം, വെെമുഖ്യം, വിസമ്മതം

Examples of unwillingness in a sentence

  • The word "lazy", when used to describe a person's unwillingness to work, is a disapproving word.
  • The League was hampered by the U.S.'s refusal to join and its member states' unwillingness to impose sanctions on foreign countries.
  • Prereadiness does not exclude participation, whereas unwillingness is an indication of non-participation.

All 13 example sentences with unwillingness

Forms of unwillingness

pluralunwillingnesses

Origin of unwillingness

From unwilling + -ness.

Questions about unwillingness

What does unwillingness mean?
Unwillingness means the property of being unwilling.
What is unwillingness in Malayalam?
Unwillingness in Malayalam is മനസ്സില്ലായ്മ, വിമുഖത, അസന്നദ്ധത. See Unwillingness meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is unwillingness?
Unwillingness is a noun.
What is the plural of unwillingness?
The plural of unwillingness is unwillingnesses.

Words near unwillingness in the dictionary

  1. unwillful
  2. unwillfully
  3. unwillfulness
  4. unwilling
  5. unwillingly
  6. unwillingness
  7. unwillingnesses
  8. unwills
  9. unwilted
  10. unwilting
  11. unwily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unwillingness (page history and authors); unwillingness (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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