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A feeling of diffidence about doing something
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hesitancy
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Word definitions for hesitancy in dictionaries
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, from Latin haesitantia "action of stammering," from haesitantem (nominative haesitans ) "stammering," present participle of haesitare (see hesitation ).\n
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hesitancy \Hes"i*tan*cy\, n. [L. haesitantia a stammering.] The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates. A stammering; a faltering in speech.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A pause or halt before beginning a task, often as a result of some fear or uncertainty about the outcome.
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ Sensing Ann's hesitancy , Louella added quickly, "We won't stay long." EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ A few candidates may virtually eliminate themselves by their hesitancy and you can even consider refusing to continue the interview. ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a feeling of diffidence about doing something [syn: hesitance ] a certain degree of unwillingness; "a reluctance to commit himself"; "after some hesitation he agreed" [syn: reluctance , hesitation , disinclination , indisposition ]
Usage examples of hesitancy.
The Crucian pilots displayed the raggedness one might expect of newbies, but little of the awkwardness and none of the hesitancy.
The seceders owed from the first their successes not to their superior organization, to their better preparation, or to the better discipline and appointment of their armies, but to their very rashness, to their audacity even, and the hesitancy, cautious and deliberation of the government.
Vess was again untypical in that she set a bountiful table, and there was no hesitancy or finicking in the way the men pitched into the burgoo of squirrel and deer meat and mixed vegetables.
Toom Drommel gave a rousing speech in the PlasHein, rebuking the Ploughers for persisting in their foolish plan, with all the harm it would do to the workers of Canol Madreth, and rebuking the Castellans for their hesitancy in implementing their plan when his party had agreed to support it.
On the same day Hitler received Prime Minister Imredy and Foreign Minister Kanya of Hungary and gave them a dressing down for the hesitancy shown in Budapest.
He applied to me in 1843 for Christian baptism, and, offended by my hesitancy, went and enrolled himself among the disciples of another missionary.
The seceders owed from the first their successes not to their superior organization, to their better preparation, or to the better discipline and appointment of their armies, but to their very rashness, to their audacity even, and the hesitancy, cautious and deliberation of the government.
It did not appear to be a natural formation, but Childers displayed no hesitancy in approaching it, and I deferred to his judgment.
Since the first method of intimidation involves removing an article of clothing, and the latter involves actually forcing an article of clothing to adhere ever more closely to the victim's body (in this case to the vertical concave aperture separating the two semi-spheres of the glutius maximus), I am afraid my hesitancy represents some underlying ambivalency about becoming a professional bully.
Khavan took a careful step back, but Arthroon whirled and gave him such a glare that the Fangbrother froze, trembling, and remained in that quivering hesitancy even when the old manor rather, the thing that the old man had becomestopped in its amblings, sniffed, raised its head to sniff again, and then turned with a roar to confront the two priests.
On the Fourth of July the Bergs gave a party, a celebration for Peggy, who now, except for the slightest hesitancy in her walk, was practically recovered from the long ordeal.
Daffyd said, suddenly comprehending the reason for her visit and her hesitancy in mentioning the subject in Andres's presence.
There seemed to be no hesitancy in its progress and it occurred to me that, judging by the direction it was taking, it must very soon be coming upon the first of those long rides that ran from east to west across the forest.
As an essential part of a narrative educed by your question it is related here without hesitancy or shame.
The sentence was effective, overshadowing deeper fears, hesitancies, a rife disquiet.