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tentativeness
noun as in hesitation
Weak matches
- averseness
- dawdling
- delay
- delaying
- demurral
- doubt
- dubiety
- equivocation
- faltering
- fluctuation
- fumbling
- hemming and hawing
- hesitancy
- indecision
- indecisiveness
- indisposition
- irresoluteness
- irresolution
- misgiving
- mistrust
- oscillation
- pause
- procrastination
- qualm
- reluctance
- scruple
- shilly-shally
- skepticism
- stammering
- stumbling
- stuttering
- timidity
- timidness
- to and fro
- unwillingness
- vacillation
- wavering
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Example Sentences
Musk also provided a tentative timeline for deliveries of Tesla’s Cybertruck, which will be built at a factory still under construction in Austin, Tex.
The first tentative calculation of tunneling time appeared in print in 1932.
Commercial-real estate company Squarefoot has been making tentative steps, like others, to return to its New York office space over the last few months.
Talks between the two companies are ongoing, but if a tentative technology-sharing and manufacturing deal announced last month falls apart, Nikola will revert to a “base plan” without GM’s help, CEO Mark Russell said in an interview late Thursday.
Two months later, the parties informed the court they had reached a tentative settlement.
In Libya, the crisis of American tentativeness has grown worse almost by the day.
But in Libya the crisis of American tentativeness has grown worse almost by the day.
Lute's eyes were quizzical as she asked with a tentativeness that was palpably assumed, "With—a—with Mr. Barton?"
He did it sketchily, with casual tentativeness, so that when it was found among the papers there would be no suspicions.
The fact that he remained standing imparted a tentativeness to the situation.
He nodded and swung away, moving with a peculiar tentativeness.
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On this page you'll find 45 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to tentativeness, such as: averseness, dawdling, delay, delaying, demurral, and doubt.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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