NOUN | feeling | hesitancy, hesitance | a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something |
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attribute | hesitancy, reluctance, hesitation, disinclination, indisposition | a certain degree of unwillingness |
Sounds | hheh'zihtahnsiy | |
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Rhymes | absorbency ... Yangtze: 255 rhymes with siy... |
Meaning | A feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something. | |
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Synonym | hesitance | |
Broader | diffidence, self-doubt, self-distrust | lack of self-confidence |
Spanish | indecisión | |
Catalan | indecisió | |
Adjectives | hesitant | lacking decisiveness of character |
Meaning | A certain degree of unwillingness. | |
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Example | "his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition" | |
Synonyms | reluctance, hesitation, disinclination, indisposition | |
Narrower | sloth, slothfulness | A disinclination to work or exert yourself |
Broader | unwillingness, involuntariness | The trait of being unwilling |
Spanish | aversión, hesitación, indisposición, reluctancia | |
Catalan | inapetència, indisposició | |
Adjectives | hesitant | lacking decisiveness of character |
Verbs | hesitate | pause or hold back in uncertainty / uncertainty or unwillingness |
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