Hesitance
Hesitance noun - A lack of willingness or desire to do or accept something.
Usage example: sales figures for the month were up, as consumers began to overcome their hesitance about purchasing big-ticket items
Misgiving
Misgiving noun - A feeling or attitude that one does not know the truth, truthfulness, or trustworthiness of someone or something.
Hesitance and misgiving are semantically related in trepidation topic. Sometimes you can use "Hesitance" instead a noun "Misgiving".
Nearby Word: misgiven
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- reservation and hesitance
- reservation and misgiving
- anxiety and hesitance
- anxiety and misgiving
- apprehension and hesitance
- apprehension and misgiving
- demur and hesitance
- demur and misgiving
- trepidation and hesitance
- trepidation and misgiving
- wavering and hesitance
- wavering and misgiving
- doubt and hesitance
- doubt and misgiving
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Misgiving and Hesitance. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 22, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hesitance/misgiving
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