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Tentativeness

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The characteristic of being tentative. uncountable, usually

    "There are also some delightful love scenes between Jean and Esther. Russ does an excellent job of capturing the blend of excitement, tentativeness and panic present in the culmination of something so lusted after and so feared."

Etymology

From tentative + -ness.

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