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Source: gcide
Hesitation \Hes`i*ta"tion\, n. [L. haesitatio: cf. F.
h['e]sitation.]
1. The act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action;
doubt; vacillation.

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2. A faltering in speech; stammering. --Swift.

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Source: wn
hesitation
n 1: indecision in speech or action [syn: {vacillation}, {wavering}]
2: a certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit
himself"; "after some hesitation he agreed" [syn: {reluctance},
{hesitancy}, {disinclination}, {indisposition}]

3: the act of pausing uncertainly; "there was a hesitation in
his speech" [syn: {waver}, {falter}, {faltering}]

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Source: moby thes
159 Moby Thesaurus words for "hesitation":
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


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