| English Dictionary |
INVOLUNTARINESS
| Pronunciation (US): |  | (GB): | |
Dictionary entry overview: What does involuntariness mean?
• INVOLUNTARINESS (noun)
The noun INVOLUNTARINESS has 1 sense:
1. the trait of being unwilling
Familiarity information: INVOLUNTARINESS used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
The trait of being unwilling
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Synonyms:
involuntariness; unwillingness
Context example:
in spite of our warnings he plowed ahead with the involuntariness of an automaton
Hypernyms ("involuntariness" is a kind of...):
disposition; temperament (your usual mood)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "involuntariness"):
disinclination; hesitancy; hesitation; indisposition; reluctance (a certain degree of unwillingness)
resistance ((psychiatry) an unwillingness to bring repressed feelings into conscious awareness)
| Learn English with... Proverbs |
"Who pats the chicken, eats the egg." (Albanian proverb)
"Meeting death is better than trying to ignore it." (Arabic proverb)
"He who seeks, finds." (Corsican proverb)