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indecision

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of indecision

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

her indecision about where to go for dinner, while everyone was getting hungrier by the minute, was frustrating

Synonyms of indecision

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

Words Related to indecision

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 indecision

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

alacrity, eagerness, readiness

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