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Better nuances are doubtless available via the Oxford English Dictionary, and in some cases of common usage they're probably almost interchangeable. But there is a real difference. I'd say resistance is more active and reluctance is more passive; i.e., in the case of resistance one is more likely to take some sort of action to register the desire not to do what's being asked; in the case of reluctance one may exhibit "symptoms" of not wanting to do what's being asked, or even express one's unwillingness verbally, but implicit in the word "reluctance" is that one is more likely to go ahead and do it anyway.

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