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Definition of Hesitance
1. Noun. A feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something.
Generic synonyms: Diffidence, Self-distrust, Self-doubt
Derivative terms: Hesitant, Hesitant
Definition of Hesitance
1. Noun. The act or state of hesitating. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hesitance
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hesitance
Literary usage of Hesitance
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Cambridge Modern History by John Emerich Edward Dalberg Acton Acton, Ernest Alfred Benians, Sir Adolphus William Ward, George Walter Prothero (1909)
"A Roman noble of the age of Horace, with his vast estates, his nominal adherence
to Augustan morality, and his playful hesitance between rival philosophies, ..."
2. Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1910)
"He is a nervous, excitable being, and talks with head, shoulders, arms, and hands,
while his hesitance makes it the harder. Of his theology I will say more ..."
3. Poems by Robert Underwood Johnson (1902)
"There's something troubles you, my sweet-of-hearts, A hesitance in that caressing
word; Nothing unhappy—a presentiment Such as from far might thrill the ..."
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