英语词汇“indecision”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

indecision

/ɪndɪˈsɪʒ(ə)n

noun [mass noun]

The inability to make a decision quickly: government indecision over the future of local taxation a gesture of indecision...

At every stage, ambivalence and indecision has meant that decisions were forced upon them by events on the ground.
At what point does indecision, does the inability to act at all, become legitimately frightening?
She seemed to hover in indecision for a second, and then made the abrupt decision to speak.

Synonyms

indecisiveness, irresolution, 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

Origin

Mid 18th century: from French indécision, from in- (expressing negation) + décision, from Latin decisio(n-), from the verb decidere (see decide).

单词	indecision
释义	indecision /ɪndɪˈsɪʒ(ə)n / noun [mass noun] The inability to make a decision quickly: government indecision over the future of local taxation a gesture of indecision... At every stage, ambivalence and indecision has meant that decisions were forced upon them by events on the ground. At what point does indecision, does the inability to act at all, become legitimately frightening? She seemed to hover in indecision for a second, and then made the abrupt decision to speak. Synonyms indecisiveness, irresolution, 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 Origin Mid 18th century: from French indécision, from in- (expressing negation) + décision, from Latin decisio(n-), from the verb decidere (see decide).
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