Meaning of IRRESOLUTION
| Pronunciation: | | i`rezu'looshun
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- [n] the trait of being irresolute; lacking firmness of purpose
- [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, indecisiveness, irresoluteness |
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| | Antonyms: | | firmness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve | | |
| | See Also: | | doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, hesitation, incertitude, indecision, indecisiveness, trait, uncertainty, unpredictability, vacillation, volatility, wavering | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Ir*res`o*lu"tion\, n. [Cf. F. irr['e]solution.]
Want of resolution; want of decision in purpose; a
fluctuation of mind, as in doubt, or between hope and fear;
irresoluteness; indecision; vacillation.
Irresolution on the schemes of life which offer
themselves to our choice, and inconstancy in pursuing
them, are the greatest causes of all unhappiness.
--Addison.
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| | Related Terms: | | amiable weakness, breakability, brittleness, capriciousness, chance, chanciness, changeableness, collapse, daintiness, delicacy, destructibility, disintegration, effeminacy, erraticism, erraticness, fickleness, flimsiness, fragility, frailty, frangibility, hesitancy, hesitation, human frailty, incalculability, incertitude, indecision, indecisiveness, indemonstrability, indeterminacy, indetermination, indeterminism, infirmity of will, inherent vice, lightness, luck, moral weakness, randomness, shilly-shally, sleaziness, slightness, suspense, suspensefulness, to-and-fro, unaccountability, uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unforeseeableness, unpredictability, unprovability, unsubstantiality, unsureness, unverifiability, vacillation, velleity, wavering, whimsicality, wispiness, womanishness |
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