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hesitancy

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of hesitancy

1 a lack of willingness or desire to do or accept something
  • His appointment to the superintendency was confirmed by the school board without the least hesitancy.
Synonyms of hesitancy

disinclination, hesitance, reluctance, reticence, unwillingness
Words Related to hesitancy

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 hesitancy

assurance, assuredness, certainty, certitude, conviction, positiveness, sureness, surety
Antonyms of hesitancy

inclination, willingness
2 a state or an instance of temporary inaction because of uncertainty about the right course of action
  • His hesitancy in pulling over into the next lane while he had a chance resulted in him missing his exit.
Synonyms of hesitancy

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

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
Near Antonyms of hesitancy

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

alacrity, eagerness, readiness

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