599 synonyms found

Pronunciation:

[ hˌɛsɪtˈe͡ɪʃən], [ hˌɛsɪtˈe‍ɪʃən], [ h_ˌɛ_s_ɪ_t_ˈeɪ_ʃ_ə_n]

Similar words for hesitation:

• ambivalence (noun)
• cognition (noun)
• delay (noun)
• diffidence (noun)
• disinclination (noun)
• doubt (noun)
• equivocation (noun)
• falter (noun)
• faltering (noun)
• hesitancy (noun)
• hesitation (noun)
• insecureness (noun)
• instability (noun)
• misgiving (noun)
• objection (noun)
• other relevant words (noun)
• pause (noun)
• precariousness (noun)
• procrastination (noun)
• qualm (noun)
• ricketiness (noun)
• scruple (noun)
• stammering (noun)
• suspense (noun)
• uncertainty (noun)
• unsteadiness (noun)
• unsureness (noun)
• vacillation (noun)
• doubt (verb)
• other relevant words (verb)
• other synonyms
• other relevant words (noun)

Paraphrases for hesitation

Hyponyms for hesitation

Synonyms for Hesitation:

• n.

  •
  • reservation,
  • reserve,
  • doubt yourself,
  • scepticism,
  • a question mark over something.
  •
  • timidity,
  • decide,
  • Shilly-shally.
  • ambivalence (noun)
  • in conclusivenesses,
  • in-decision,
  • iffinesses,
  • in decisions,
  • in-conclusiveness,
  • in decision,
  • inconclusivenesses,
  • in-decisions,
  • in conclusiveness,
  • confusion dilemmas,
  • in-conclusivenesses.
  • cognition (noun)
  • vacillation,
  • hesitation,
  • wavering.
  • delay (noun)
  • delay,
  • oscillation.
  • diffidence (noun)
  • sheepishness,
  • shyness,
  • in security,
  • mousiness,
  • unassertiveness,
  • self-consciousness,
  • timorousness,
  • insecurity.
  • disinclination (noun)
  • disinclination.
  • doubt (noun)
  • agnosticism,
  • demurral,
  • waverings,
  • skepticism,
  • lack of confidence.
  • equivocation (noun)
  • ambivalence.
  • falter (noun)
  • falter.
  • faltering (noun)
  • faltering.
  • hesitancy (noun)
  • procrastination,
  • procrastinations.
  • hesitation (noun)
  • indisposition,
  • waver.
  • insecureness (noun)
  • in securenesses,
  • in secureness,
  • in-securenesses,
  • in-secureness.
  • instability (noun)
  • insecureness,
  • unpredictability,
  • fickleness,
  • precariousness,
  • unreliability,
  • impermanence,
  • unpredictabilities,
  • fitfulness,
  • fluidity,
  • changeability,
  • disequilibrium,
  • changeableness,
  • mutability,
  • variability,
  • unsureness,
  • transience,
  • mutabilities,
  • variabilities,
  • capriciousness,
  • Unfixedness.
  • misgiving (noun)
  • pre notions,
  • pre-notions,
  • pre monitions,
  • mis-giving,
  • pre sentiments,
  • pre-notion,
  • pre-monition,
  • un belief,
  • apprehensivenesses,
  • pre notion,
  • fore-boding,
  • fore bodings,
  • pre-sage,
  • un-eases,
  • fore boding,
  • pre-sentiment,
  • pre-sentiments,
  • mis giving,
  • un-beliefs,
  • prenotions,
  • pre sages,
  • un eases,
  • pre monition,
  • un-belief,
  • un beliefs,
  • pre sage,
  • un-ease,
  • un ease,
  • pre-sages.
  • objection (noun)
  • dis approbations,
  • dis-approval,
  • dis-pleasure,
  • dis inclination,
  • dis approbation,
  • dis-esteems,
  • dis inclinations,
  • dis content,
  • dis-approvals,
  • dis-contents,
  • dis-approbation,
  • dis-content,
  • dis-esteem,
  • counter-arguments,
  • dis satisfaction,
  • dis satisfactions,
  • re monstrance,
  • dis-inclinations,
  • un-willingness,
  • dis-approbations,
  • dis pleasure,
  • un willingness,
  • dis-satisfactions,
  • dis pleasures,
  • dis-pleasures,
  • counterarguments,
  • dis contents,
  • un willingnesses,
  • re-monstrances,
  • dis-satisfaction,
  • re-monstrance,
  • re monstrances,
  • counter argument,
  • demurrings,
  • dis-inclination,
  • counter arguments,
  • shrinkings,
  • dis approvals,
  • dis esteems,
  • un-willingnesses,
  • dis approval,
  • dis esteem.
  • Other relevant words: (noun)
  • niggle,
  • reluctance,
  • quandary,
  • potboilers,
  • grabber,
  • ricketiness,
  • counter-argument,
  • wobbliness,
  • cloak and dagger,
  • cutoff,
  • confusion dilemma,
  • Prenotion,
  • inconstancy,
  • protestation,
  • break-off,
  • negativity,
  • page-turner,
  • unstableness,
  • grabbers,
  • stopping,
  • gridlock,
  • inconclusiveness,
  • objection,
  • doubt,
  • diffidence,
  • pausation,
  • inconstancies,
  • counterargument,
  • breakoff,
  • instability,
  • qualm,
  • breathing spell,
  • suspense,
  • iffiness,
  • time out,
  • Interregnums,
  • chillers,
  • hesitancy,
  • uncertainty,
  • potboiler,
  • thrillers,
  • thriller,
  • interregnum,
  • Remonstration,
  • pause,
  • apprehensiveness,
  • cliff-hanger,
  • rest period.
  • pause (noun)
  • dis-continuance,
  • interregna,
  • dis-continuances,
  • inter ludes,
  • re spite,
  • inter-lude,
  • break offs,
  • dis continuance,
  • re spites,
  • breakoffs,
  • pausations,
  • inter-ludes,
  • re cesses,
  • breathing spells,
  • inter lude,
  • dis continuances,
  • break-offs,
  • re-cess,
  • inter missions,
  • rest periods,
  • re-spites.
  • precariousness (noun)
  • pre cariousnesses,
  • pre cariousness,
  • pre-cariousnesses,
  • pre-cariousness.
  • procrastination (noun)
  • stalling.
  • qualm (noun)
  • re morses,
  • un-easinesses,
  • mis-doubt,
  • re-morses,
  • un easiness,
  • re-morse,
  • mis-doubts,
  • mis doubts,
  • re morse,
  • mis doubt,
  • un-easiness.
  • ricketiness (noun)
  • wobblinesses.
  • scruple (noun)
  • reconsideration,
  • reconsiderations,
  • Reluctancy,
  • scruples,
  • superego,
  • Superegos.
  • stammering (noun)
  • sputterings.
  • suspense (noun)
  • page turner,
  • page-turners,
  • in decisiveness,
  • in-decisivenesses,
  • pageturner,
  • in-decisiveness,
  • cloak daggers,
  • page turners,
  • cliff-hangers,
  • cloak and daggers,
  • cliff hanger,
  • cloak dagger,
  • pageturners,
  • cliff hangers,
  • in decisivenesses.
  • uncertainty (noun)
  • Questionableness,
  • Uncertainties.
  • unsteadiness (noun)
  • un steadinesses,
  • un steadiness,
  • un-steadiness,
  • un-steadinesses.
  • unsureness (noun)
  • un-surenesses,
  • un sureness,
  • un-sureness,
  • un surenesses.
  • vacillation (noun)
  • in constancy,
  • in constancies,
  • in-constancy,
  • in-constancies.

• v.

  • doubt (verb)
  • misgiving.
  • Other relevant words: (verb)
  • feeling,
  • wait.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • irresoluteness,
  • indecisiveness,
  • tentativeness,
  • waltz.
  •
  • fear,
  • compunction,
  • to and fro,
  • timidness.
  • Other relevant words (noun):
  • falsetto,
  • improbability,
  • discontinuity,
  • conscience,
  • interval,
  • surely,
  • dilatoriness,
  • contriteness,
  • irresolution,
  • gap,
  • chanciness,
  • hold up,
  • inconsistent,
  • hiatus,
  • hazy,
  • flicker,
  • unwillingness,
  • breather,
  • Unaccountability,
  • Misdoubt,
  • Demirep,
  • distinctly,
  • delicacy,
  • dawdling,
  • doubtfulness,
  • hesitating,
  • fastidiousness,
  • trembling,
  • dysphemia,
  • suspend,
  • remission,
  • Ceasing,
  • lull,
  • horror,
  • twinge,
  • shrinking,
  • hold off,
  • shakiness,
  • deliberation,
  • indetermination,
  • alarm,
  • dread,
  • discontinuation,
  • queasiness,
  • judiciousness,
  • Undetermination,
  • break,
  • limitation,
  • demimonde,
  • demur,
  • drawl,
  • intermezzo,
  • Scrupulosity,
  • twang,
  • hedging,
  • quickly,
  • halt,
  • Stickling,
  • fright,
  • intermission,
  • stall,
  • demimondaine,
  • fluctuation,
  • discontinuance,
  • vacillating,
  • day off,
  • guilt,
  • fumbling,
  • qualmishness,
  • interim,
  • suspect,
  • irregularity,
  • modesty,
  • time off,
  • feebleness,
  • suspension,
  • letup,
  • infirmity,
  • relaxation,
  • truce,
  • rest,
  • lapse,
  • layoff,
  • stoppage,
  • firmly,
  • certainly,
  • randomness,
  • ambiguity,
  • determinedly,
  • Delaying,
  • unsteadiness,
  • obviously,
  • Unsettlement,
  • holding back,
  • sinking feeling,
  • scruple,
  • Hetaera,
  • hesitance,
  • broken voice,
  • instantly,
  • want,
  • indecisive,
  • clearly,
  • contrition,
  • manifestly,
  • equivocation,
  • luck,
  • withholding,
  • lacuna,
  • indeterminate,
  • discomfort,
  • uncertainty principle,
  • caprice,
  • uncertainness,
  • disbelieving,
  • Balbuties,
  • second thought,
  • chance,
  • Boggling,
  • pendulous,
  • check,
  • mistrust,
  • require,
  • laxness,
  • intermittence,
  • diminution,
  • shilly-shallying,
  • unhesitatingly,
  • abatement,
  • stuttering,
  • gingerliness,
  • moratorium,
  • in doubt,
  • evidently,
  • truely,
  • unreservedly,
  • Incredulousness,
  • apprehend,
  • doubtful,
  • regardfulness,
  • mortification,
  • heedfulness,
  • terror,
  • remissness,
  • trepidation,
  • sloth,
  • relief,
  • assuredly,
  • swinging,
  • distrustfulness,
  • hesitant,
  • linger,
  • self-reproach,
  • implicitly,
  • flutter,
  • backwardness,
  • moderation,
  • uncertain,
  • regret,
  • unbelief,
  • caesura,
  • stop,
  • unevenness,
  • fearfulness,
  • solicitude,
  • indeterminism,
  • circumspection,
  • incertitude,
  • incredulity,
  • decisively,
  • dismay,
  • let-up,
  • Involuntariness,
  • baulk,
  • plainly,
  • Averseness,
  • scrupulousness,
  • hesitate,
  • boggle,
  • calculation,
  • easily,
  • protest,
  • stay,
  • unease,
  • stumbling,
  • stutter,
  • disinclined,
  • vacation,
  • Feeze,
  • lessening,
  • reticence,
  • dubiousness,
  • fluctuating,
  • Pausing,
  • stammer,
  • cease-fire,
  • Traulism,
  • anxiety,
  • distrustful,
  • leeriness,
  • consternation,
  • decidedly,
  • cessation,
  • oscillate,
  • anguish,
  • deliberateness,
  • interlude,
  • indecision,
  • evasion,
  • undoubtedly,
  • caution,
  • embarrassment,
  • incredulous,
  • apprehension,
  • limit,
  • dubious,
  • surcease,
  • bewilderment,
  • apparently,
  • promptly,
  • think twice,
  • foreboding,
  • swing,
  • whimsicality,
  • Temporization,
  • kept,
  • fixedly,
  • second thoughts,
  • funny feeling,
  • inarticulate,
  • Canniness,
  • qualms,
  • slowness,
  • Indemonstrability,
  • erraticism,
  • cease,
  • suspicion,
  • recoil,
  • drop,
  • carefulness,
  • whore,
  • infirm,
  • unsettled,
  • uncommunicativeness,
  • bashfulness,
  • question,
  • stand-down,
  • uneasiness,
  • concern,
  • cowardice,
  • undecided,
  • need,
  • squeamishness,
  • perplexity,
  • prudence,
  • courtesan,
  • Inarticulateness,
  • heed,
  • smoothly,
  • alternation,
  • apprehensive,
  • immediately,
  • holiday,
  • bad vibes,
  • fearful,
  • Incalculability,
  • cautiousness,
  • worry,
  • dodging,
  • fault,
  • guardedness,
  • care,
  • mistrustfulness,
  • mindfulness,
  • vague,
  • definitely,
  • recess,
  • premonition,
  • Fudging,
  • hedge,
  • panic,
  • openly,
  • speech impediment,
  • safeness,
  • avoidance,
  • hover,
  • interruption,
  • malaise,
  • dilemma,
  • halting,
  • fancy woman,
  • distrust,
  • restraint,
  • in abeyance,
  • balk,
  • arrest,
  • lisp,
  • dubiety,
  • abeyance,
  • disquiet,
  • mugwump,
  • slackness,
  • keeping back,
  • respite,
  • stammering,
  • inconstant,
  • resolutely,
  • doubting,
  • breathing space,
  • palilalia,
  • remorse,
  • cravenness,
  • wariness,
  • thoroughness,
  • erratic,
  • disbelief,
  • restriction,
  • tergiversation,
  • hemming and hawing,
  • discretion,
  • directly,
  • indeterminacy,
  • whisper,
  • readily,
  • pang,
  • lightly.

Paraphrases for Hesitation:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    hesitancy, indecisiveness, reluctance, vacillation.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    ambiguity, caution, objection, resistance, restraint, volatility.

• Other Related

  • Noun, singular or mass
    apprehension, compunction, concern, confusion, delay, diffidence, doubt, embarrassment, equivocation, indecision, procrastination, question, reservation, reticence, timidity, uncertainty, unwillingness.

Hyponym for Hesitation:

• n.

  • cognition
    indecisiveness, indecision, irresolution.