Hesitation

Noun

 * 1) An act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation.
 * 2) A faltering in speech; stammering.

Adjectives for Hesitation
sensitive; obvious; imitative; painful; surprised; charming; inexplicable; imperceptible; timorous; controlled; characteristic; awkward; coquettish; momentary; ineloquent.

Verbs for Hesitation
conceal—; decry—; deny—; grieve over—; lament—; pretend—; reproach—; shrink in—; stagger in—; stammer in—; tear with—; —confounds; —endangers; —frustrates; —haunts; —loses; — perplexes; —prevents; —shames; —tortures; —embarrasses.

Thesaurus
procrastination, protest, prudence, prudentialness, qualm, qualm of conscience, qualmishness, randomness, recess, recoil, regardfulness, reluctance, remission, remissness, respite, rest, safeness, safety first, scruple, scrupulosity, scrupulousness, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shrinking, shyness, slackness, slowness, slowness to act, solicitude, stall, stammer, stammering, stand-down, stay, stickling, stutter, stuttering, suspense, suspensefulness, suspension, temporization, tentativeness, thoroughness, to-and-fro, traulism, truce, unaccountability, uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, uncommunicativeness, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unforeseeableness, unprecipitateness, unpredictability, unprovability, unsureness, unverifiability, vacation, vacillation, wavering, whimsicality, whore, Fabian policy, Micawberism, abeyance, averseness, backwardness, balbuties, bashfulness, boggle, boggling, break, caesura, calculation, canniness, capriciousness, care, careful consideration, carefulness, caution, cautiousness, cease-fire, chance, chanciness, changeableness, circumspection, compunction, courtesan, day off, delay, deliberate stages, deliberateness, deliberation, demimondaine, demimonde, demirep, demur, demurral, diffidence, dilatoriness, discretion, doubt, drop, dubiety, dysphemia, erraticism, erraticness, falter, faltering, fancy woman, fickleness, gingerliness, guardedness, hedge, hedging, heed, heedfulness, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitating, hetaera, hold-off, holiday, incalculability, incertitude, indecision, indecisiveness, indemonstrability, indeterminacy, indetermination, indeterminism, indisposition, interim, interlude, intermezzo, intermission, intermittence, interruption, interval, irresolution, judiciousness, kept, lapse, laxness, layoff, letup, luck, lull, mindfulness, mistrust, modesty, mugwump, objection, palilalia, pause, pawkiness, prior consultation,

Alternative forms

 * hæsitation

Etymology
From haesitationem:, accusative singular of haesitatio:, from haesito:.

Related terms

 * hesitate

Translations

 * Czech:
 * Finnish: empiminen, epäröiminen, epäröinti
 * German: Zögern
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 躊躇 (chūcho), ためらい (tamerai)
 * Polish: wahanie, niezdecydowanie
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Finnish: takeltelu


 * German: Zögern