irresolution – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
irresolution
n.
lack of resolution, hesitation, uncertainty
irresolution
Noun
1. doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action; "his indecision was only momentary but the opportunity was lost"
(synonym) indecision, indecisiveness
(hypernym) doubt, uncertainty, incertitude, dubiety, doubtfulness, dubiousness
(hyponym) hesitation, vacillation, wavering
2. the trait of being irresolute; lacking firmness of purpose
(synonym) irresoluteness
(hypernym) trait
(hyponym) volatility, unpredictability
irrésolution
nf.
indecision, irresolution, wavering
Irresolution
(n.)
Want of resolution; want of decision in purpose; a fluctuation of mind, as in doubt, or between hope and fear; irresoluteness; indecision; vacillation.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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irresolution
Synonyms and related words:
amiable weakness, breakability, brittleness, capriciousness, chance, chanciness, changeableness, collapse, daintiness, delicacy, destructibility, disintegration, effeminacy, erraticism, erraticness, fickleness, flimsiness, fragility, frailty, frangibility, hesitancy, hesitation, human frailty, incalculability, incertitude, indecision, indecisiveness, indemonstrability, indeterminacy, indetermination, indeterminism, infirmity of will, inherent vice, lightness, luck, moral weakness, randomness, shilly-shally, sleaziness, slightness, suspense, suspensefulness, to-and-fro, unaccountability, uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unforeseeableness, unpredictability, unprovability, unsubstantiality, unsureness, unverifiability, vacillation, velleity, wavering, whimsicality, wispiness, womanishness
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Moby Project created by Grady Ward. In 1996 Grady Ward placed this thesaurus in the public domain.