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| Main Entry: | |
| 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: | ricketiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unstableness |
| Synonyms: | alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecurity, instability, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness*, wobbliness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | shakiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instability |
| Synonyms: | alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecureness, insecurity, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unstableness, unsteadiness, unsureness, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| 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: | unstableness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unsteadiness |
| Synonyms: | alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecurity, instability, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, ricketiness, shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness*, wobbliness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsteadiness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unstableness |
| Synonyms: | alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecurity, instability, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, ricketiness, shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness*, wobbliness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | unsureness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | instability |
| Synonyms: | alternation, anxiety, capriciousness, changeability, changeableness, disequilibrium, disquiet, fickleness, fitfulness, flightiness, fluctuation, fluidity, frailty, hesitation, immaturity, impermanence, inconsistency, inquietude, insecureness, insecurity, irregularity, irresolution, mutability, oscillation, pliancy, precariousness, restlessness, shakiness, transience, uncertainty, unfixedness, unpredictability, unreliability, unstableness, unsteadiness, vacillation, variability, volatility, vulnerability, wavering, weakness* |
* = informal/non-formal usage
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