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Definition of irresolution in English: irresolutionnoun ɪˌrɛzəˈl(j)uːʃnˌɪrɛzəˈl(j)uːʃnɪ(r)ˌrɛzəˈluʃ(ə)n mass nounHesitancy; uncertainty. Example sentencesExamples - Himmler's irresolution and vacillation was also his enemy.
- Despite the nobility of its conception, this odyssey will end in irresolution and equivocation - as indeed it must.
- The modern mind attempts to cleanse itself, to ‘scour away’ what it believes to be painful impurities, to think its way out of irresolution.
- Such is Kerry's reputation for irresolution that even when he does talk tough, America's adversaries don't take him seriously.
- In this vacuum of uncertainty and irresolution, business and investment decisions have been delayed, put on ice or cancelled altogether.
Synonyms indecisiveness, indecision, irresoluteness, lack of resolution, hesitancy, hesitation, tentativeness ambivalence, doubt, doubtfulness, unsureness, uncertainty vacillation, equivocation, oscillation, wavering, teetering, fluctuation, faltering, second thoughts delay, hanging back, waiting, shilly-shallying, dithering, stalling, temporizing, temporization British havering, humming and hawing Scottish swithering informal dilly-dallying, blowing hot and cold, sitting on the fence rare dubiety, incertitude, cunctation
Rhymes ablution, absolution, allocution, attribution, circumlocution, circumvolution, Confucian, constitution, contribution, convolution, counter-revolution, destitution, dilution, diminution, distribution, electrocution, elocution, evolution, execution, institution, interlocution, Lilliputian, locution, perlocution, persecution, pollution, prosecution, prostitution, restitution, retribution, Rosicrucian, solution, substitution, volution Definition of irresolution in US English: irresolutionnounɪ(r)ˌrɛzəˈluʃ(ə)ni(r)ˌrezəˈlo͞oSH(ə)n Hesitancy; uncertainty. Example sentencesExamples - Himmler's irresolution and vacillation was also his enemy.
- Despite the nobility of its conception, this odyssey will end in irresolution and equivocation - as indeed it must.
- The modern mind attempts to cleanse itself, to ‘scour away’ what it believes to be painful impurities, to think its way out of irresolution.
- In this vacuum of uncertainty and irresolution, business and investment decisions have been delayed, put on ice or cancelled altogether.
- Such is Kerry's reputation for irresolution that even when he does talk tough, America's adversaries don't take him seriously.
Synonyms indecisiveness, indecision, irresoluteness, lack of resolution, hesitancy, hesitation, tentativeness
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