reluctancia

reluctancia

Portuguese

Noun

reluctancia f (plural reluctancias)

1. Obsolete spelling of relutância
   • 1914, David Lloyd George, A Guerra Europea, Harrison and Sons, page 2:

     Não ha homem que com maior reluctancia e maior repugnancia tenha encarado como eu […] a perspectiva de se ver envolvido em uma grande guerra.

     There is no man in this room who has always regarded the prospect of engaging in a great war with greater reluctance and with greater repugnance that I have done […] .

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Spanish

Noun

reluctancia f (plural reluctancias)

1. reluctance, unwillingness
2. (physics) reluctance

Further reading

• “reluctancia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014