indisposition

1. 1.

   a slight illness

   Broaderillness
2. 2.

   a certain degree of unwillingness

   “a reluctance to commit himself”

   “his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition”

   “after some hesitation he agreed”

   Synonymsreluctancehesitancyhesitationdisinclination

   Broaderunwillingness

   Narrowersloth

Other forms of indisposition

plural

indispositions·

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 indisposition

What does indisposition mean?

indisposition means "a slight illness". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indisposition?

indisposition has 6 syllables: in-di-spo-si-ti-on. The stress falls on "ti".

What is another word for indisposition?

Close synonyms include reluctance, hesitancy, hesitation, disinclination. 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.

Is indisposition a common word?

indisposition is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.