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| Main Entry: | |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | irresolution |
| Synonyms: | doubt, hesitancy, hesitation, inconstancy, indecision, indecisiveness, irresoluteness, tentativeness, uncertainty |
| Main Entry: | vacillation |
| Part of Speech: | noun1, noun2 |
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Adjectives: |
ambidextrous, at a loss, capricious, changeful, coquetting, cowardly, double, dwaible, easy, fast and loose, feeble, fidgety, frail, frothy, giddy, half, infirm of purpose, irresolute, light, light, off one's balance, reactionary, reversible, revocable, revocatory, shilly, time, tremulous, trimming, unable to say no, undecided, undetermined, unjaundiced, unresolved, unsteadfast, unsteady, vacillating, volatile, weak, without ballast
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| Main Entry: | doubt |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of faith, conviction; questioning |
| Synonyms: | agnosticism, ambiguity, apprehension, confusion, demurral, difficulty, diffidence, dilemma, disbelief, discredit, disquiet, distrust, dubiety, dubiousness, faithlessness, faltering, fear, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, incredulity, indecision, irresolution, lack of confidence, misgiving, mistrust, perplexity, problem, qualm, quandary, rejection, reluctance, scruple, skepticism, suspense, suspicion, uncertainty, vacillation, wavering |
| Antonyms: | belief, certainty, confidence, dependence, faith, reliance, trust |
| 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: | instability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | imbalance, inconstancy |
| Synonyms: | alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecurity, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness |
| Antonyms: | balance, constancy, soundness, stability, steadfastness |
| Main Entry: | vibration |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | shaking, quivering |
| Synonyms: | beating, fluctuation, judder, oscillation, pulsation, pulse, quake, quiver, resonance, reverberation, shake, shimmy, throb, throbbing, trembling, tremor, vacillation, wave, wavering |
| Antonyms: | stillness |
| Main Entry: | indecision |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | hesitation |
| Synonyms: | doubt, indecisiveness, irresolution, uncertainty, vacillation |
| 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: | insecurity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anxiety |
| Synonyms: | doubt, hesitancy, indecision, self-doubt, uncertainty, vacillation |
| 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 |
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