disinclination

Other forms of disinclination

plural

disinclinations·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about disinclination

What does disinclination mean?

disinclination means "that toward which you are inclined to feel dislike". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in disinclination?

disinclination has 5 syllables: di-sin-cli-na-tion. The stress falls on "na". In IPA it is /dɪsɪnkləˈneɪʃən/.

What is another word for disinclination?

Close synonyms include reluctance, hesitancy, hesitation, indisposition. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of disinclination?

The recorded antonyms are inclination.

Is disinclination a common word?

disinclination is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with disinclination?

73 words rhyme with disinclination. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.