Meaning of INDECISION
| Pronunciation: | | `indi'sizhun
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- [n] the trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character or purpose; "the king's incurable indecisiveness caused turmoil in his court"
- [n] doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action; "his indecision was only momentary but the opportunity was lost"
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| | Synonyms: | | indecisiveness, indecisiveness, irresolution |
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| | Antonyms: | | decision, decisiveness | | |
| | See Also: | | doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, hesitation, incertitude, irresoluteness, irresolution, uncertainty, vacillation, wavering | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \In`de*ci"sion\, n. [Pref. in- not + decision: cf. F.
ind['e]cision.]
Want of decision; want of settled purpose, or of firmness;
indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation;
hesitation.
The term indecision . . . implies an idea very nicely
different from irresolution; yet it has a tendency to
produce it. --Shenstone.
Indecision . . . is the natural accomplice of violence.
--Burke.
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| | Related Terms: | | ambitendency, ambivalence, capriciousness, chance, chanciness, change of mind, changeableness, double-mindedness, dubiety, dubiousness, erraticism, erraticness, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickleness, fluctuation, hesitancy, hesitation, incalculability, incertitude, inconstancy, indecisiveness, indemonstrability, indeterminacy, indetermination, indeterminism, infirmity of purpose, instability, irresolution, luck, mercuriality, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, randomness, second thoughts, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, suspense, suspensefulness, tergiversation, to-and-fro, unaccountability, uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unforeseeableness, unpredictability, unprovability, unsettledness, unsettlement, unsureness, unverifiability, vacillation, wavering, whimsicality |
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