Hesitation

Synonyms for "hesitation" (229 found)

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Closest matches (46)

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Related words (114)

Related word relations

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More general

12 entries
cognitive phenomenonindecisionindecisivenessinvoluntarinessirresolutionlinguistic phenomenonmental statepausespeech disfluencysystem latencytemporal delayunwillingness

More specific

9 entries
actuation delaybrief pausecommunication latencyfillersindecisionresponse latencysensor lagsilent pausesound prolongation

Collocations

5 entries
brief hesitationexpress hesitationhesitation timeprolonged hesitationspeech hesitation

Inflections

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Derivations

3 entries

Sample sentences

11 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

You should make sure of the fact without hesitation.

Source: tatoeba (16509)

A moment's hesitation may cost a pilot his life.

Source: tatoeba (27712)

Without a moment's hesitation, they took drastic action against the conspiracy.

Source: tatoeba (40497)

After some hesitation, he laid the book on the desk.

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