indecisionn.
/ɪndɪˈsɪʒən/ Want of decision; inability to decide or to make up one's mind; a wavering between possible courses of action; hesitation.
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the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > [noun]
yea-and-nayc1384
vacillationc1400
titteringa1413
stackeringc1440
wondingc1440
fluctuationc1450
waver1519
mammering1532
uncertainty1548
wavering1548
to and fro1553
suspense1560
staggering1565
suspension1568
mammery1578
demur1581
branle1591
dilly-dally1592
hesitance1601
irresolution1601
uncertainness1601
undecision1611
waveringness1614
hesitancy1617
unsettledness1619
hesitation1622
unresolvednessa1626
doubleness of minda1628
wavinga1628
swagging1636
poise1637
mambling1640
stickagea1647
vacillancy1668
whifflinga1677
hovering1679
unresolve1679
irresoluteness1686
shilly-shally1755
indecisiona1763
undecisiveness1779
indecisiveness1793
oscillation1798
flexility1815
shilly-shallying1842
swaying1850
Hamletism1852
teeter1855
havering1866
off and on1875
dilly-dallying1879
double-mindedness1881
hesitatingness1890
dither1958
a1763 W. Shenstone Ess. in Wks. (1765) II. 208 The term indecision, in a man's character, implies an idea very nicely different from that of irresolution; yet it has a tendency to produce it.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1778 II. 232 I talked of the strange indecision of mind, and imbecility of the common occurrences of life, which we may observe in some people.
1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. x. 290 A character of hopeless indecision is fatal to military success.
1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. App. 529 His indecision, his unwillingness to accept the crown..cause delay.
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