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UK
/hˈɛsɪtənsi/
]
[ US /ˈhɛzɪtənsi/ ]
[ US /ˈhɛzɪtənsi/ ]
NOUN
- a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something
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a certain degree of unwillingness
after some hesitation he agreed
his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition
a reluctance to commit himself
How To Use hesitancy In A Sentence
- There was a continuing tinny susurrus of radio voices, but the police were moving, Paz observed, with an uncharacteristic hesitancy. TROPIC OF NIGHT
- Beyond, crouching by a bush, a rabbit looked across at him in trembling hesitancy. Page 3
- He is a modest shirt-sleeved fiftyish guy who says dramatic things in an offhand undramatic manner and is frank about his hesitancy, uncertainty, and agony on certain matters. How the End Begins
- In addition, family physicians learn to recognize the hesitancy of a patient who has an unvoiced concern about a ‘minor, routine surgery’.
- She wavered between hesitancy and her natural propensity for fun.
- Michael eventually followed both sisters into the pool, though initially with great hesitancy 2.
- With equal frequency he swept the ball off the sod without a second's hesitancy, and all told his was a performance fit to grace any final.
- It was returning to the gratification of a depraved appetite in the use of tobacco; and I have no hesitancy in declaring it as my opinion, that could the causes of the many acts of suicide, committed in the United States, be investigated, it would be found, that many instances were owing to the effects of _tobacco_ upon the nervous system. An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco upon Life and Health
- SNOW (voice-over): And it's that kind of hesitancy that health officials are trying to overcome. CNN Transcript Oct 23, 2009
- The hesitancy and uncertainty that characterised the lead-up to this conflict has now been taken into the battlefield.
