Hesitance
Hesitance noun - A state or an instance of temporary inaction because of uncertainty about the right course of action.
Usage example: she mistook my hesitance to mean I didn't like her poem, but I was trying to come up with appropriate words of praise
Procrastination and hesitance are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Procrastination" instead a noun "Hesitance".
Procrastination
Procrastination noun - The act of procrastinating; putting off or delaying or defering an action to a later time.
Hesitance and procrastination are semantically related. Sometimes you can use "Hesitance" instead a noun "Procrastination".
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- indisposition and hesitance
- indisposition and procrastination
- misgiving and hesitance
- misgiving and procrastination
- stall and hesitance
- stall and procrastination
- opposition and hesitance
- opposition and procrastination
- delay and hesitance
- delay and procrastination
- wait and hesitance
- wait and procrastination
- faltering and hesitance
- faltering and procrastination
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Procrastination and Hesitance. (2016). Retrieved 2026, July 21, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/hesitance/procrastination
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Procrastination or Hesitance. 2016. Accessed July 21, 2026. https://thesaurus.plus/related/hesitance/procrastination.
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