Entry Word: hesitation

Function: noun

Meaning: the act or an instance of pausing because of uncertainty about the right course of action <one momentʼs hesitation on my part, and the elusive butterfly was lost to me forever>

Synonyms faltering, hesitance, hesitancy, indecision, irresolution, shilly-shallying, vacillation, wavering, wobbling

Related Words delay, hawing, procrastination, waiting; consideration, debate, deliberation, doubt, incertitude, indetermination, uncertainty; avoidance, equivocation; aversion, disinclination, indisposition, reluctance, unwillingness; faintheartedness, shyness, timidness

Near Antonyms certainty, certitude, confidence, decisiveness, determination, firmness, resoluteness, resolution, sureness; alacrity, eagerness, readiness