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hesitance

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Synonyms and Antonyms of hesitance

1 a lack of willingness or desire to do or accept something

sales figures for the month were up, as consumers began to overcome their hesitance about purchasing big-ticket items

Synonyms of hesitance

disinclination, hesitancy, reluctance, reticence, unwillingness

Words Related to hesitance

faltering, fence-sitting, hesitation, indecision, irresolution, shilly-shallying, staggering, vacillation, wavering, wobbling (also wabbling)

distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, incertitude, misdoubt, misgiving, mistrust, mistrustfulness, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainness, uncertainty

Near Antonyms of hesitance

assurance, assuredness, certainty, certitude, conviction, positiveness, sureness, surety

Antonyms of hesitance

inclination, willingness

2 a state or an instance of temporary inaction because of uncertainty about the right course of action

she mistook my hesitance to mean I didn't like her poem, but I was trying to come up with appropriate words of praise

Synonyms of hesitance

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

Words Related to hesitance

delay, hawing, procrastination, waiting

arrière-pensée, misgiving, second thought

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

avoidance, equivocation

aversion, disinclination, indisposition, reluctance, unwillingness

faintheartedness, shyness, timidity, timidness

Near Antonyms of hesitance

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

alacrity, eagerness, readiness

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