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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | dawdling |
| Synonyms: | dabbling, delay, delaying, dilly-dallying, frittering, frivoling, idling, loafing, loitering, playing, poking, procrastinating, procrastination, puttering, toying, trifling |
| Antonyms: | hastening, hurrying, push, rush |
| Main Entry: | filibuster |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | obstruction of progress, especially in verbal argument |
| Synonyms: | delay, hindrance, holding the floor, interference, opposition, postponement, procrastination, stonewalling, talkathon |
| Antonyms: | catalyst, impetus, incentive, progression |
| Main Entry: | hesitation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | waiting; uncertainty |
| 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, skepticism, stammering, stumbling, stuttering, unwillingness, vacillation, wavering |
| Notes: | hesitancy is a quality or state, while hesitation is an act |
| Antonyms: | certainty, eagerness, go, perseverance, sureness |
| Main Entry: | hesitancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | delay |
| Synonyms: | delaying, hesitation, pause, procrastination, wavering |
| Notes: | hesitancy is a quality or state, while hesitation is an act |
| Main Entry: | indolence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sloth |
| Synonyms: | disinclination, idleness, laziness, procrastination |
| Main Entry: | postponement |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deferral |
| Synonyms: | deferring, delay, procrastination, respite, stay |
| Notes: | various things may cause a delay, but a postponement will result from the action of a person |
| 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 |
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