reluctancia

Portuguese

Noun

reluctancia f (plural reluctancias)

1. Obsolete spelling of relutância.
   • 1914, David Lloyd George, A Guerra Europea, Harrison and Sons, page 2:

     Não ha homem que com maior reluctancia e maior repugnancia tenha encarado como eu […] a perspectiva de se ver envolvido em uma grande guerra.

     There is no man in this room who has always regarded the prospect of engaging in a great war with greater reluctance and with greater repugnance that I have done […] .

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /reluɡˈtanθja/ [re.luɣ̞ˈt̪ãn̟.θja]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /reluɡˈtansja/ [re.luɣ̞ˈt̪ãn.sja]
• Rhymes: -anθja
• Rhymes: -ansja
• Syllabification: re‧luc‧tan‧cia

Noun

reluctancia f (plural reluctancias)

1. reluctance, unwillingness
2. (physics) reluctance

Further reading

• “reluctancia”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28