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hesitancy
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun hesitancy has 2 senses
- hesitancy(n = noun.feeling) hesitance - a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something; Array is a kind of diffidence, self-distrust, self-doubt
- hesitancy(n = noun.attribute) disinclination, hesitation, indisposition, reluctance - a certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition"; "after some hesitation he agreed" has particulars: sloth, slothfulness
Derived form adjective hesitant1
is a kind of involuntariness, unwillingness
Derived forms adjective hesitant1, verb hesitate1
CIDE DICTIONARY
hesitancy, n. [L. haesitantia a stammering.].
- The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates. [1913 Webster]
- A stammering; a faltering in speech. [1913 Webster]
ROGET THESAURUS
hesitancy
Irresolution
N irresolution, infirmity of purpose, indecision, indetermination, undetermination, unsettlement, uncertainty, demur, suspense, hesitating, hesitation, hesitancy, vacillation, changeableness, fluctuation, alternation, caprice, fickleness, levity, legerete, pliancy, weakness, timidity, cowardice, half measures, waverer, ass between two bundles of hay, shuttlecock, butterfly, wimp, doughface, irresolute, infirm of purpose, double-minded, half-hearted, undecided, unresolved, undetermined, shilly-shally, fidgety, tremulous, hesitating, off one's balance, at a loss, vacillating, unsteady, unsteadfast, fickle, without ballast, capricious, volatile, frothy, light, lightsome, light-minded, giddy, fast and loose, weak, feeble-minded, frail, timid, wimpish, wimpy, cowardly, dough-faced, facile, pliant, unable to say 'no', easy-going revocable, reversible, irresolutely, irresolved, irresolvedly, in faltering accents, off and on, from pillar to post, seesaw, Int, how happy could I be with either!.
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