irresolution
/ˌɪrɛzəˈl(j)uːʃn
/ /ɪˌrɛzəˈl(j)uːʃn/noun [mass noun]
Hesitancy; uncertainty: a moment of irresolution...
- In this vacuum of uncertainty and irresolution, business and investment decisions have been delayed, put on ice or cancelled altogether.
- 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.
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
