'Indecisiveness' definitions:
Definition of 'indecisiveness'
(from WordNet)
noun
Doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action; "his indecision was only momentary but the opportunity was lost" [syn: indecision, indecisiveness, irresolution]
noun
The trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character or purpose; "the king's incurable indecisiveness caused turmoil in his court" [syn: indecisiveness, indecision] [ant: decision, decisiveness]
Definition of 'Indecisiveness'
From: GCIDE
- Indecisiveness \In`de*ci"sive*ness\, n. The state of being indecisive; unsettled state. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'indecisiveness'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- ambitendency,
- ambivalence,
- amiable weakness,
- amorphia,
- amorphism,
- amorphousness,
- anarchy,
- blobbiness,
- blurriness,
- breakability,
- brittleness,
- broadness,
- capriciousness,
- chance,
- chanciness,
- change of mind,
- changeableness,
- chaos,
- collapse,
- confusion,
- daintiness,
- delicacy,
- destructibility,
- disintegration,
- disorder,
- double-mindedness,
- dubiety,
- dubiousness,
- effeminacy,
- entropy,
- erraticism,
- erraticness,
- fence-sitting,
- fence-straddling,
- fickleness,
- flimsiness,
- fogginess,
- formlessness,
- fragility,
- frailty,
- frangibility,
- fuzziness,
- generality,
- haziness,
- hesitancy,
- hesitation,
- human frailty,
- ill-definedness,
- imprecision,
- inaccuracy,
- incalculability,
- incertitude,
- inchoateness,
- incoherence,
- inconstancy,
- indecision,
- indefinableness,
- indefiniteness,
- indemonstrability,
- indeterminacy,
- indeterminateness,
- indetermination,
- indeterminism,
- indistinctness,
- inexactness,
- infirmity of purpose,
- infirmity of will,
- inherent vice,
- instability,
- irresolution,
- laxity,
- lightness,
- looseness,
- luck,
- mercuriality,
- messiness,
- mistiness,
- moral weakness,
- mugwumpery,
- mugwumpism,
- obscuration,
- obscurity,
- orderlessness,
- randomness,
- second thoughts,
- shapelessness,
- shilly-shally,
- sleaziness,
- slightness,
- suspense,
- suspensefulness,
- sweepingness,
- tergiversation,
- to-and-fro,
- unaccountability,
- uncertainness,
- uncertainty,
- uncertainty principle,
- unclearness,
- undecidedness,
- undeterminedness,
- unforeseeableness,
- unpredictability,
- unprovability,
- unsettledness,
- unsettlement,
- unsubstantiality,
- unsureness,
- unverifiability,
- vacillation,
- vagueness,
- velleity,
- wavering,
- whimsicality,
- wispiness,
- womanishness