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hesitancy

hesitancy noun: a pausing or halting before beginning a task, often as a result of some fear or uncertainty about the outcome.

Noun

hesitancy (countable and uncountable, plural hesitancies)

  1. A pausing or halting before beginning a task, often as a result of some fear or uncertainty about the outcome.
    Synonyms:
    hesitation

hesitancy meaning in Tamil, Urdu and Malayalam

hesitancy in Tamil

ஐயப்பாடு

hesitancy in Urdu

آنا کانی, دودلی, تردد

hesitancy in Malayalam

hesitation, hesitance, uncertainty
ശങ്ക, മടി, അറപ്പ്, ഇടർച്ച, വികല്പം, വിഭാഷ

Synonyms of hesitancy

Forms of hesitancy

pluralhesitancies
alternative formhæsitancy
alternative formhesitance

Origin of hesitancy

From Latin haesitantia. By surface analysis, hesitant + -cy.

Words formed from hesitancy

Questions about hesitancy

What does hesitancy mean?
Hesitancy means a pausing or halting before beginning a task, often as a result of some fear or uncertainty about the outcome.
What is hesitancy in Tamil?
Hesitancy in Tamil is ஐயப்பாடு. See Hesitancy meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is hesitancy?
Hesitancy is a noun.
What is the plural of hesitancy?
The plural of hesitancy is hesitancies.

Words near hesitancy in the dictionary

  1. hesionid
  2. hesionids
  3. hesitance
  4. hesitances
  5. hesitancies
  6. hesitancy
  7. hesitant
  8. hesitantly
  9. hesitate
  10. hesitated
  11. hesitater

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: hesitancy (page history and authors); hesitancy (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hesitancy (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); hesitancy (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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