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hesitation

the act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in his speech"

indecision in speech or action

Synonyms:

• Fabian policy,
• Micawberism,
• 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,
• 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,
• 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