Dictionary Definition
vacillation
Noun
1 indecision in speech or action [syn: hesitation, wavering]
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Etymology
From vacillatio "swaying".Noun
- Indecision in speech or action. (synonyms: hesitation, wavering)
- Changing location by moving back and forth. (synonyms: swing, swinging)
See also
vacillateSynonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
alternation, capriciousness, chance, chanciness, changeableness, dallying, demurral, dillydallying, equivocation, erraticism, erraticness, fickleness, fluctuation, frequency, frequency band,
frequency spectrum, harmonic motion, hesitancy, hesitation, incalculability,
incertitude,
indecision, indecisiveness, indemonstrability,
indeterminacy,
indetermination,
indeterminism,
irresolution,
libration, luck, nutation, oscillation, pendulation, periodicity, randomness, resonance, resonance
frequency, seesawing,
shifting,
shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shuffling, suspense, suspensefulness,
teeter-tottering, teetering, tottering, unaccountability,
uncertainness,
uncertainty,
uncertainty principle, undecidedness, undeterminedness,
unforeseeableness,
unpredictability,
unprovability,
unsureness, unverifiability,
variation, vibrancy, vibratility, vibration, vicissitude, wavering, whimsicality, wobbling