hesitation

Synonyms

faltering, fence-sitting, hesitance, hesitancy, indecision, irresolution, pause, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, vacillation, wavering, wobbling (also wabbling);

Near Antonyms

certainty, certitude, confidence, decisiveness, determination, firmness, resoluteness, resolution, sureness;

alacrity, eagerness, readiness;

Related Words

delay, hawing, procrastination, waiting;

misgiving, second thought;

consideration, debate, deliberation, doubt, incertitude, indecisiveness, indetermination, uncertainness, uncertainty;

avoidance, equivocation;

aversion, disinclination, indisposition, reluctance, unwillingness;

faintheartedness, shyness, timidity, timidness;