reluctance

Other forms of reluctance

plural

reluctances·

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 reluctance

What does reluctance mean?

reluctance means "(physics) opposition to magnetic flux (analogous to electric resistance)". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in reluctance?

reluctance has 3 syllables: re-luc-tance. The stress falls on "luc". In IPA it is /ɹɪˈlʌktəns/.

What is another word for reluctance?

Close synonyms include hesitancy, hesitation, disinclination, 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.

Is reluctance a common word?

reluctance 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.