hesitations in English

noun

1

the action of pausing or hesitating before saying or doing something.

she answered without hesitation

synonyms: hesitancy, uncertainty, unsureness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, irresolution, irresoluteness, indecision, indecisiveness, hesitance, equivocation, vacillation, waffling, wavering, second thoughts, dithering, stalling, dawdling, temporization, delay, reluctance, disinclination, unease, ambivalence, cold feet, dubiety

noun

hesitancy, uncertainty, unsureness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, irresolution, irresoluteness, indecision, indecisiveness, hesitance, equivocation, vacillation, waffling, wavering, second thoughts, dithering, stalling, dawdling, temporization, delay, reluctance, disinclination, unease, ambivalence, cold feet, dubiety
disinclination, reluctance, indisposition, hesitancy
waver, faltering, falter
vacillation, wavering

Use "hesitations" in a sentence

1. His frequent hesitations annoyed the audience.

2. Let your hesitations be hushed

3. His doubts and hesitations were tiresome.

4. 23 His frequent hesitations annoyed the audience.

5. We were trained to speak fluently and without unnecessary hesitations.

6. 30 He promised there would be no more hesitations in pursuing reforms.

7. He promised there would be no more hesitations in pursuing reforms.

8. Fluency and Coherence: Do you express ideas and opinions clearly and coherently, without long hesitations?

9. Their exchanges are filled with hesitations, contractions, slang and prejudice, as well as the strange poetry of profanity.

10. Henry’s hesitations encouraged the formation of the powerful Holy League against the Huguenots; and, after the assassination of Henry III in 1589, his successor, the Protestant heir Henry IV, could pacify the kingdom only by Adjuring Protestantism (July 1593), accepting Catholicism, and thus depriving the League of its pretext for resisting him.