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
Mutual synonyms
Related pairs
- reservation and hesitance
- reservation and timidity
- anxiety and hesitance
- anxiety and timidity
- apprehension and hesitance
- apprehension and timidity
- trepidation and hesitance
- trepidation and timidity
- wavering and hesitance
- wavering and timidity
- doubt and hesitance
- doubt and timidity
- pause and hesitance
- pause and timidity
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