| Learning / English Dictionary |
INVOLUNTARINESS
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The trait of being unwilling
Example:
in spite of our warnings he plowed ahead with the involuntariness of an automaton
Synonyms:
involuntariness; unwillingness
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("involuntariness" is a kind of...):
disposition; temperament (your usual mood)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "involuntariness"):
disinclination; hesitancy; hesitation; indisposition; reluctance (a certain degree of unwillingness)
resistance ((psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness)
