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Unwillingness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The property of being unwilling. countable, uncountable

    "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."

  2. 2
    the trait of being unwilling wordnet

Etymology

From unwilling + -ness.

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