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Definition of Hesitancy
1. Noun. A feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something.
Generic synonyms: Diffidence, Self-distrust, Self-doubt
Derivative terms: Hesitant, Hesitant
2. Noun. A certain degree of unwillingness. "After some hesitation he agreed"
Specialized synonyms: Sloth, Slothfulness
Generic synonyms: Involuntariness, Unwillingness
Derivative terms: Disincline, Hesitant, Hesitate, Hesitate, Indispose, Reluctant, Reluctant, Reluctant
Definition of Hesitancy
1. n. The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates.
Definition of Hesitancy
1. Noun. A pausing or halting before beginning a task, often as a result of some fear or uncertainty about the outcome. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Hesitancy
1. [n -CIES]
Medical Definition of Hesitancy
1. An involuntary delay or inability in starting the urinary stream. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hesitancy
Literary usage of Hesitancy
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Letters of George Meredith by George Meredith (1912)
"... and a sense of their spiritual flatness: great respect for them, and a hesitancy
to determine whether they are now at their full growth, or that there ..."
2. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"hesitancy, л. «. \ Fr. hésiter; LaU HESITATION, я. i. ... Some of them reasoned
without doubt or hesitancy, And lived and died in such a manner as to «how ..."
3. China at the Conference: A Report by Westel Woodbury Willoughby (1922)
"... Japan's hesitancy. That the Japanese Government was not willing to give
immediate and unreserved approval to the American project appeared when a ..."
4. Biographical Sketch of Linton Stephens, (late Associate Justice of the by James D. Waddell (1877)
"Hardly any one of his acquaintance, needing the benefaction, felt delicacy or
showed hesitancy in ..."
5. The Evanston Colloquium: Lectures on Mathematics Delivered from Aug. 28 to by Felix Klein, Alexander Ziwet (1893)
"But I maintain that in ordinary life we actually operate with such inexact
definitions, fhus we speak without hesitancy of the direction and curvature of a ..."
6. The Draft Riots in New York, July, 1863: The Metropolitan Police, Their by David M. Barnes (1863)
"... and there was no instance of hesitancy or want of nerve among them. Third Precinct.
The force of the Third Precinct, No. 160 Chambers Street, Capt. ..."
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