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Averseness
| Main Entry: |
averseness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unwillingness |
| Synonyms: | aversion, disinclination, dislike, distaste, indisposition, loathing, loathness, opposition, reluctance, repugnance |
| Main Entry: | indisposition |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dislike |
| Synonyms: | affliction, ailment, averseness, discomfort, disinclination, disorder, illness, infirmity, malady, malaise, reluctance, resentment, sickness, unwillingness |
| 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: | 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: | 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: | unwillingness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | indisposition |
| Synonyms: | alienation, antipathy, averseness, aversion, demur, disfavor, disinclination, dislike, disliking, displeasure, disrelish, dissatisfaction, distaste, hatred, hesitance, lack of desire, lack of enthusiasm, loathness, objection, opposition, reluctance, repugnance, resistance |
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