'Hesitation' definitions:
Definition of 'hesitation'
(from WordNet)
noun
Indecision in speech or action [syn: hesitation, vacillation, wavering]
noun
A certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition"; "after some hesitation he agreed" [syn: reluctance, hesitancy, hesitation, disinclination, indisposition]
noun
Definition of 'Hesitation'
From: GCIDE
- Hesitation \Hes`i*ta"tion\, n. [L. haesitatio: cf. F. h['e]sitation.]
- 1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A faltering in speech; stammering. --Swift. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'hesitation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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