'Vacillation' definitions:
Definition of 'vacillation'
(from WordNet)
Definition of 'Vacillation'
From: GCIDE
- Vacillation \Vac`il*la"tion\, n. [L. vacillatio: cf. F. vacillation.]
- 1. The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering. [1913 Webster]
- His vacillations, always exhibited most pitiably in emergencies. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Unsteadiness of purpose; changeableness. [1913 Webster]
- There is a vacillation, or an alternation of knowledge and doubt. --Jer. Taylor. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'vacillation'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alternation,
- capriciousness,
- chance,
- chanciness,
- changeableness,
- dallying,
- demurral,
- dillydallying,
- equivocation,
- erraticism,
- erraticness,
- fickleness,
- fluctuation,
- frequency,
- frequency band,
- frequency spectrum,
- harmonic motion,
- hesitancy,
- hesitation,
- incalculability,
- incertitude,
- indecision,
- indecisiveness,
- indemonstrability,
- indeterminacy,
- indetermination,
- indeterminism,
- irresolution,
- libration,
- luck,
- nutation,
- oscillation,
- pendulation,
- periodicity,
- randomness,
- resonance,
- resonance frequency,
- seesawing,
- shifting,
- shilly-shally,
- shilly-shallying,
- shuffling,
- suspense,
- suspensefulness,
- teeter-tottering,
- teetering,
- tottering,
- unaccountability,
- uncertainness,
- uncertainty,
- uncertainty principle,
- undecidedness,
- undeterminedness,
- unforeseeableness,
- unpredictability,
- unprovability,
- unsureness,
- unverifiability,
- variation,
- vibrancy,
- vibratility,
- vibration,
- vicissitude,
- wavering,
- whimsicality,
- wobbling