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Synonyms for hesitation
noun waiting; uncertainty- doubt
- equivocation
- hesitancy
- indecision
- misgiving
- mistrust
- pause
- procrastination
- qualm
- reluctance
- skepticism
- unwillingness
- vacillation
- dawdling
- delay
- demurral
- dubiety
- faltering
- fluctuation
- indecisiveness
- indisposition
- irresolution
- oscillation
- scruple
- wavering
- averseness
- delaying
- fumbling
- hemming and hawing
- stammering
- stumbling
- stuttering
Antonyms for hesitation
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.
diffidence
noun. hesitancy; lack of confidence
doubt
noun. lack of faith, conviction; questioning
- agnosticism
- ambiguity
- apprehension
- confusion
- demurral
- difficulty
- diffidence
- dilemma
- disbelief
- discredit
- disquiet
- distrust
- dubiety
- dubiousness
- faithlessness
- faltering
- fear
- hesitancy
- hesitation
- incertitude
- incredulity
- indecision
- irresolution
- lack of confidence
- misgiving
- mistrust
- perplexity
- problem
- qualm
- quandary
- rejection
- reluctance
- scruple
- skepticism
- suspense
- suspicion
- uncertainty
- vacillation
- wavering
doubts
noun. lack of faith, conviction; questioning
- agnosticism
- ambiguity
- apprehension
- confusion
- demurral
- difficulty
- diffidence
- dilemma
- disbelief
- discredit
- disquiet
- distrust
- dubiety
- dubiousness
- faithlessness
- faltering
- fear
- hesitancy
- hesitation
- incertitude
- incredulity
- indecision
- irresolution
- lack of confidence
- misgiving
- mistrust
- perplexity
- problem
- qualm
- quandary
- rejection
- reluctance
- scruple
- skepticism
- suspense
- suspicion
- uncertainty
- vacillation
- wavering
insecureness
noun. instability
- alternation
- anxiety
- capriciousness
- changeability
- changeableness
- disequilibrium
- disquiet
- fickleness
- fitfulness
- flightiness
- fluctuation
- fluidity
- frailty
- hesitation
- immaturity
- impermanence
- inconsistency
- inquietude
- insecurity
- irregularity
- irresolution
- mutability
- oscillation
- pliancy
- precariousness
- restlessness
- shakiness
- transience
- uncertainty
- unfixedness
- unpredictability
- unreliability
- unstableness
- unsteadiness
- unsureness
- vacillation
- variability
- volatility
- vulnerability
- wavering
- weakness
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the
Philip Lief Group.