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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
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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
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“Hesitance.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hesitance. Accessed 7 Aug. 2022.
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The first known use of hesitance was in 1601
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