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Hesitation

Hesitation Meaning & Definition
Hesitation Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Hesitation?

[n] the act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech"
[n] a certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "after some hesitation he agreed"
[n] indecision in speech or action

Synonyms | Synonyms for Hesitation: disinclination | falter | faltering | hesitancy | indisposition | reluctance | vacillation | waver | wavering

Related Terms | Find terms related to Hesitation: abeyance | averseness | backwardness | balbuties | bashfulness | boggle | boggling | break | caesura | calculation | canniness | capriciousness | care | careful consideration | carefulness | caution | cautiousness | cease-fire | chance | chanciness | changeableness | circumspection | compunction | courtesan | day off | delay | deliberate stages | deliberateness | deliberation | demimondaine | demimonde | demirep | demur | demurral | diffidence | dilatoriness | discretion | doubt | drop | dubiety | dysphemia | erraticism | erraticness | Fabian policy | falter | faltering | fancy woman | fickleness | gingerliness | guardedness | hedge | hedging | heed | heedfulness | hesitance | hesitancy | hesitating | hetaera | hold-off | holiday | incalculability | incertitude | indecision | indecisiveness | indemonstrability | indeterminacy | indetermination | indeterminism | indisposition | interim | interlude | intermezzo | intermission | intermittence | interruption | interval | irresolution | judiciousness | kept | lapse | laxness | layoff | letup | luck | lull | Micawberism | mindfulness | mistrust | modesty | mugwump | objection | palilalia | pause | pawkiness | prior consultation | procrastination | protest | prudence | prudentialness | qualm | qualm of conscience | qualmishness | randomness | recess | recoil | regardfulness | reluctance | remission | remissness | respite | rest | safeness | safety first | scruple | scrupulosity | scrupulousness | shilly-shally | shilly-shallying | shrinking | shyness | slackness | slowness | slowness to act | solicitude | stall | stammer | stammering | stand-down | stay | stickling | stutter | stuttering | suspense | suspensefulness | suspension | temporization | tentativeness | thoroughness | to-and-fro | traulism | truce | unaccountability | uncertainness | uncertainty | uncertainty principle | uncommunicativeness | undecidedness | undeterminedness | unforeseeableness | unprecipitateness | unpredictability | unprovability | unsureness | unverifiability | vacation | vacillation | wavering | whimsicality | whore

See Also | indecision | indecisiveness | irresolution | pause | sloth | slothfulness | unwillingness

Hesitation In Webster's Dictionary

\Hes`i*ta"tion\, n. [L. haesitatio: cf. F. h['e]sitation.] 1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. --Swift.

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