Word Study
indecimable |
indecipherable |
indecision |
indecisive |
indecisively |
indecisiveness
| indeclinable
| indeclinably
| indecomposable
| indecomposableness
| indecorous
indecisiveness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun indecisiveness has 2 senses
- indecisiveness(n = noun.cognition) indecision, irresolution - doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action; "his indecision was only momentary but the opportunity was lost" is a kind of doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainty
- indecisiveness(n = noun.attribute) indecision - the trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character or purpose; "the king's incurable indecisiveness caused turmoil in his court" is a kind of irresoluteness, irresolution
has particulars: hesitation, vacillation, wavering
Derived form adjective indecisive1
Antonym: decisiveness
Derived form adjective indecisive1
CIDE DICTIONARY
indecisiveness, n.
The state of being indecisive; unsettled state. [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
indecisiveness
ambitendency, ambivalence, amiable weakness, amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness, anarchy, blobbiness, blurriness, breakability, brittleness, broadness, capriciousness, chance, chanciness, change of mind, changeableness, chaos, collapse, confusion, daintiness, delicacy, destructibility, disintegration, disorder, double-mindedness, dubiety, dubiousness, effeminacy, entropy, erraticism, erraticness, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickleness, flimsiness, fogginess, formlessness, fragility, frailty, frangibility, fuzziness, generality, haziness, hesitancy, hesitation, human frailty, ill-definedness, imprecision, inaccuracy, incalculability, incertitude, inchoateness, incoherence, inconstancy, indecision, indefinableness, indefiniteness, indemonstrability, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, indetermination, indeterminism, indistinctness, inexactness, infirmity of purpose, infirmity of will, inherent vice, instability, irresolution, laxity, lightness, looseness, luck, mercuriality, messiness, mistiness, moral weakness, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, obscuration, obscurity, orderlessness, randomness, second thoughts, shapelessness, shilly-shally, sleaziness, slightness, suspense, suspensefulness, sweepingness, tergiversation, to-and-fro, unaccountability, uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, unclearness, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unforeseeableness, unpredictability, unprovability, unsettledness, unsettlement, unsubstantiality, unsureness, unverifiability, vacillation, vagueness, velleity, wavering, whimsicality, wispiness, womanishness
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