| Main Entry: | tentativeness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hesitation |
Synonyms: |
averseness, dawdling, delay, delaying, demurral, doubt, dubiety, equivocation, faltering, fluctuation, fumbling, hemming and hawing, hesitancy, indecision, indecisiveness, indisposition, irresoluteness, irresolution, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, pause, procrastination, qualm, reluctance, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticism, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, timidity, timidness, to-and-fro, unwillingness, vacillation, wavering |
| Main Entry: | ambivalence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | equivocation |
Synonyms: |
confusion dilemma, doubt, fluctuation, gingerliness, haze, hesitancy, hesitation, iffiness, inconclusiveness, indecision, irresoluteness, muddle, quandary, tentativeness, uncertainty, unsureness |
Antonyms: |
certainty, decisiveness |
| Main Entry: | vacillation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irresolution |
Synonyms: |
doubt, hesitancy, hesitation, inconstancy, indecision, indecisiveness, irresoluteness, tentativeness, uncertainty |
| Main Entry: | indecisiveness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hesitation |
Synonyms: |
averseness, dawdling, delay, delaying, demurral, doubt, dubiety, equivocation, faltering, fluctuation, fumbling, hemming and hawing, hesitancy, indecision, indisposition, irresoluteness, irresolution, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, pause, procrastination, qualm, reluctance, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticism, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, tentativeness, timidity, timidness, to-and-fro, unwillingness, vacillation, wavering |
| Notes: | indecision describes a general state or condition, one that can characterize a body or group, whereas indecisiveness describes an individual character trait |
| Main Entry: | irresoluteness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hesitation |
Synonyms: |
averseness, dawdling, delay, delaying, demurral, doubt, dubiety, equivocation, faltering, fluctuation, fumbling, hemming and hawing, hesitancy, indecision, indecisiveness, indisposition, irresolution, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, pause, procrastination, qualm, reluctance, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticism, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, tentativeness, timidity, timidness, to-and-fro, unwillingness, vacillation, wavering |
| Main Entry: | irresolution |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hesitation |
Synonyms: |
averseness, dawdling, delay, delaying, demurral, doubt, dubiety, equivocation, faltering, fluctuation, fumbling, hemming and hawing, hesitancy, indecision, indecisiveness, indisposition, irresoluteness, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, pause, procrastination, qualm, reluctance, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticism, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, tentativeness, timidity, timidness, to-and-fro, unwillingness, vacillation, wavering |
| Main Entry: | timidness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hesitation |
Synonyms: |
averseness, dawdling, delay, delaying, demurral, doubt, dubiety, equivocation, faltering, fluctuation, fumbling, hemming and hawing, hesitancy, indecision, indecisiveness, indisposition, irresoluteness, irresolution, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, pause, procrastination, qualm, reluctance, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticism, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, tentativeness, timidity, to-and-fro, unwillingness, vacillation, wavering |
| Main Entry: | to-and-fro |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hesitation |
Synonyms: |
averseness, dawdling, delay, delaying, demurral, doubt, dubiety, equivocation, faltering, fluctuation, fumbling, hemming and hawing, hesitancy, indecision, indecisiveness, indisposition, irresoluteness, irresolution, misgiving, mistrust, oscillation, pause, procrastination, qualm, reluctance, scruple, shilly-shally, skepticism, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, tentativeness, timidity, timidness, unwillingness, vacillation, wavering |
| Main Entry: | vacillation |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2 |
Related
Adjectives: |
light, light, time, volatile, ambidextrous, at a loss, capricious, changeful, coquetting, cowardly, double, dwaible, easy, fast and loose, feeble, fidgety, frail, frothy, giddy, half, infirm of purpose, irresolute, off one's balance, reactionary, reversible, revocable, revocatory, shilly, tremulous, trimming, unable to say no, undecided, undetermined, unjaundiced, unresolved, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, weak, without ballast
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| Concept: | Irresolution. |
| Category: | 1. Acts of volition |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
irresolution, infirmity of purpose, indecision; indetermination, undetermination; unsettlement; uncertainty; demur, suspense; hesitating, hesitation, hesitancy; vacillation; changeableness; fluctuation; alternation (oscillation); caprice., fickleness, levity, legerete; pliancy (softness); weakness; timidity; cowardice; half measures., waverer, ass between two bundles of hay; shuttlecock, butterfly; wimp; doughface [U.S.].
-verbs
be irresolute; hang in suspense, keep in suspense; leave "ad referendum"; think twice about, pause; dawdle (inactivity); remain neuter; dillydally, hesitate, boggle, hover, dacker, hum and haw, demur, not know one's own mind; debate, balance; dally with, coquet with; will and will not, chaser-balancer; go halfway, compromise, make a compromise; be thrown off one's balance, stagger like a drunken man; be afraid; let "I dare not" wait upon "I would" [Macbeth]; falter, waver, vacillate; change; retract; fluctuate; pendulate; alternate (oscillate); keep off and on, play fast and loose; blow hot and cold (caprice)., shuffle, palter, blink; trim.
-adjectives
irresolute, infirm of purpose, double-minded, half-hearted; undecided, unresolved, undetermined; shilly-shally; fidgety, tremulous; hesitating; off one's balance; at a loss (uncertain)., vacillating; unsteady (changeable); unsteadfast, fickle, without ballast; capricious; volatile, frothy; light, lightsome, lightminded; giddy; fast and loose., weak, feeble-minded, frail; timid, wimpish, wimpy; cowardly; dough-faced [U.S.]; facile; pliant (soft); unable to say "no", easygoing, revocable, reversible.
-adverbs
irresolutely; irresolved, irresolvedly; in faltering accents; off and on; from pillar to post; seesaw.
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Antonyms: |
resolution, obstinacy |
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