Meaning of INDECISIVENESS
Pronunciation: | | `indi'sIsivnes
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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: | | indecision, indecision, 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"sive*ness\, n.
The state of being indecisive; unsettled state.
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| Related Terms: | | ambitendency, ambivalence, amiable weakness, amorphia, amorphism, amorphousness, anarchy, blobbiness, blurriness, breakability, brittleness, broadness, capriciousness, chance, chanciness, change of mind, changeableness, chaos, collapse, confusion, daintiness, delicacy, destructibility, disintegration, disorder, double-mindedness, dubiety, dubiousness, effeminacy, entropy, erraticism, erraticness, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fickleness, flimsiness, fogginess, formlessness, fragility, frailty, frangibility, fuzziness, generality, haziness, hesitancy, hesitation, human frailty, ill-definedness, imprecision, inaccuracy, incalculability, incertitude, inchoateness, incoherence, inconstancy, indecision, indefinableness, indefiniteness, indemonstrability, indeterminacy, indeterminateness, indetermination, indeterminism, indistinctness, inexactness, infirmity of purpose, infirmity of will, inherent vice, instability, irresolution, laxity, lightness, looseness, luck, mercuriality, messiness, mistiness, moral weakness, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, obscuration, obscurity, orderlessness, randomness, second thoughts, shapelessness, shilly-shally, sleaziness, slightness, suspense, suspensefulness, sweepingness, tergiversation, to-and-fro, unaccountability, uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, unclearness, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unforeseeableness, unpredictability, unprovability, unsettledness, unsettlement, unsubstantiality, unsureness, unverifiability, vacillation, vagueness, velleity, wavering, whimsicality, wispiness, womanishness |
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