1. Indecision in speech or action
   - vacillation, wavering 
2. A certain degree of unwillingness
   "after some hesitation he agreed"
   - reluctance, hesitancy, disinclination, indisposition 
3. The act of pausing uncertainly
   "there was a hesitation in his speech"
   - waver, falter, faltering

Derived forms: hesitations

See also: hesitate

Type of: indecision, indecisiveness, involuntariness, irresolution, pause, unwillingness

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