Hesitance
Hesitance noun - A lack of willingness or desire to do or accept something.
Scruples
Scruples noun - Motivation deriving logically from ethical or moral principles that govern a person's thoughts and actions.
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- reservation and hesitance
- reservation and scruples
- anxiety and hesitance
- anxiety and scruples
- misgiving and hesitance
- misgiving and scruples
- vacillate and hesitance
- vacillate and scruples
- demur and hesitance
- demur and scruples
- faltering and hesitance
- faltering and scruples
- falter and hesitance
- falter and scruples
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