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The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
Orlando Aloysius Battista

Meaning of "hesitancy" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF HESITANCY

hesitancy  [ˈhɛzɪtənsɪ] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF HESITANCY

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Hesitancy is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES HESITANCY MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of hesitancy in the English dictionary

The definition of hesitancy in the dictionary is a reluctance to do something quickly or immediately, usually because you are uncertain, embarrassed or worried.


WORDS THAT RHYME WITH HESITANCY


appetency
ˈæpɪtənsɪ
blatancy
ˈbleɪtənsɪ
competency
ˈkɒmpɪtənsɪ
concubitancy
kɒnˈkjuːbɪtənsɪ
dilatancy
daɪˈleɪtənsɪ
dubitancy
ˈdjuːbɪtənsɪ
excitancy
ˈɛksɪtənsɪ
exorbitancy
ɪɡˈzɔːbɪtənsɪ
incogitancy
ɪnˈkɒdʒɪtənsɪ
incompetency
ɪnˈkɒmpɪtənsɪ
inhabitancy
ɪnˈhæbɪtənsɪ
intermittency
ˌɪntəˈmɪtənsɪ
irritancy
ˈɪrɪtənsɪ
latency
ˈleɪtənsɪ
latitancy
ˈlætɪtənsɪ
militancy
ˈmɪlɪtənsɪ
patency
ˈpeɪtənsɪ
penitency
ˈpɛnɪtənsɪ
precipitancy
prɪˈsɪpɪtənsɪ
remittency
rɪˈmɪtənsɪ

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE HESITANCY

hesitance
hesitant
hesitantly
hesitate
hesitater
hesitatingly
hesitation
hesitative
hesitator
hesitatory
Hesperia
Hesperian
Hesperidean
Hesperides
Hesperidian
hesperidin
hesperidium

WORDS THAT END LIKE HESITANCY

acceptancy
accountancy
adjutancy
aggressive accountancy
attractancy
concomitancy
constancy
consultancy
executancy
expectancy
exultancy
fancy
financial accountancy
importancy
inconstancy
inexpectancy
instancy
life expectancy
management consultancy
oscitancy
reluctancy

Synonyms and antonyms of hesitancy in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «HESITANCY»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «hesitancy» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of hesitancy

Translation of «hesitancy» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF HESITANCY

Find out the translation of hesitancy to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of hesitancy from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «hesitancy» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

犹豫
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

vacilación
570 millions of speakers

English

hesitancy
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

संदेह
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

تردد
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

нерешительность
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

hesitação
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

কুণ্ঠা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

hésitation
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Ragu-ragu
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Zögern
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

ためらい
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

주저
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Hesitancy
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

sự do dự
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

தயக்கத்தால்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अनिश्चितता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

duraksama
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

esitazione
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

niezdecydowanie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

нерішучість
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ezitare
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

διστακτικότητα
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

huiwering
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

tveksamhet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

nøling
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of hesitancy

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «HESITANCY»

The term «hesitancy» is regularly used and occupies the 102.906 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «HESITANCY» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «hesitancy» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «hesitancy» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about hesitancy

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3 QUOTES WITH «HESITANCY»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word hesitancy.
1
Orlando Aloysius Battista
The greatest weakness of most humans is their hesitancy to tell others how much they love them while they're alive.
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Peter Dawson
The hesitancy is in the detail, not the principal. There has been no resistance to the principal of women playing in the Open if they are qualified for it. We are not dragging our feet. It's just that we never had cause to think about it before.
3
Britt Robertson
I never had a problem with social situations. A lot of times, when people are in school, they can have a little hesitancy because people are mean sometimes. I never had that problem because I never had that experience. So, I had a pretty easy transition.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «HESITANCY»

Discover the use of hesitancy in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to hesitancy and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Ideological Hesitancy in Spain 1700-1750
The author explains key aspects of Spain’s polemical Age of Reason, particularly the uncertain shifts in scientific ideas, the developing confusion of philosophical attitudes, the controversial movements in literary theories, the popular ...
Ivy Lilian McClelland, 1991
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Hesitancy and Experimentation in Enlightenment Spain and ...
Hesitancy. and. Experimentation. in. Enlightenment. Spain. and. Spanish. America. Published in memory of Ivy L. McClelland, a pioneer-scholar of Spain's eighteenth century, this volume of original essays contains, besides an Introduction to ...
Ann L Mackenzie, Jeremy Robbins, 2013
3
Joyce's Book of the Dark: Finnegans Wake
Yet to explain the recurrence of the "spell of hesitancy" throughout Finnegans Wake on the basis of this story alone will not quite solve the riddle it poses as a reader (and particularly a non-Irish reader) encounters it — as Joyce's remark to  ...
John Bishop, 1993
4
A Dictionary of Modern Legal Usage
See SEXISM (AI & he or she. hesitancy; hesitance; hesitation. Hesitancy is a quality ("the state of being hesitant; reluctance"), whereas hesitation is an act (" the act of hesitating"). Thus: "The courts had no hesitancy in holding the defamatory ...
Bryan A. Garner, 2001
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Organizing Silence: A World of Possibilities
Thus, her story might also fit well under "denotative hesitancy." For the sake of brevity not all stories incorporating more than one framing technique are repeated. However, every story reflecting the first three framing devices are included ...
Robin Patric Clair, 1998
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Action-Hesitancy Model: Theoretical Proposal and Preliminary ...
In this work, I propose a novel decision-making theory, the action-hesitancy model, aimed at articulating a non-consequentialist alternative to these models.
Zeljka Buturovic-Bradaric, 2011
7
Dr. Spock's The School Years: The Emotional and Social ...
Discipline: Teaching Children Expectations for Behavior Hesitancy in Parents The most frequent difficulty between parents and children in America, I believe, is parental hesitancy — in giving directions and in seeing that they are carried out.
Benjamin Spock, 2002
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The Novels and Stories: Stories. [v.]1: The lady or the ...
Discourager of Hesitancy. When our king makes known his wishes to any one, a subject or visitor, whose disposition in some little points may be supposed not wholly to coincide with that of his Majesty, I am appointed to attend him closely, that ...
Frank Richard Stockton, 1900
9
The Christmas wreck. A story of assisted fate. An unhistoric ...
"'I,' said the other, with a courteous smile, 'am the Discourager of Hesitancy. When our King makes known his wishes to any one, a subject or visitor, whose disposition in some little points may be supposed not to wholly coincide with that of his ...
Frank Richard Stockton, 1886
10
Garner's Modern American Usage
hesitancy; ✳hesitance; hesitation. Strictly speaking, hesitancy is a quality (“the state of being hesitant; reluctance”), while hesitation is an act (“the act of hesitating”). Thus, the better usage is to say that you have no hesitancy about doing ...
Bryan Garner, 2009

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «HESITANCY»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term hesitancy is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Colorado Board of Health Rejects PTSD as MMJ Condition - Westword
... clinical trials or studies to rely on because of marijuana's illegal federal status and the Federal Drug Administration's hesitancy to research it. «Westword, Jul 15»
2
Cullman fans dig into new Harper Lee novel - The Cullman Times …
Despite her anticipation, however, Miller felt a bit of hesitancy about the book, due to controversy surrounding its release. “I've heard about the ... «Cullman Times Online, Jul 15»
3
Even in a rocky global economy, companies should still export …
“There might be some more hesitancy because of the media swirl around the international economic circumstances,” he said, “but the issue in ... «Jacksonville Business Journal, Jul 15»
4
So "feels" Is A Golf Term That's Actually Catching On -- And We're …
Pardon us for our hesitancy in embracing the term when Tiger Woods dropped it in passing earlier this month at The Greenbrier Classic, and ... «GolfDigest.com, Jul 15»
5
Shrinking tax reform will shrink US tax base | TheHill
They will suffer from that hesitancy while we and others outside the [U.S.] will benefit." Nakabayashi is correct and the Senate Finance ... «The Hill, Jul 15»
6
Brussels to Beijing: Now is NATO's China Moment, Part Two
China's historical hesitancy to enter into any “all for one and one for all” defense pact with other states, à la NATO's Article 5 stipulation, stems ... «CIMSEC, Jul 15»
7
12 ways to make your relationship feel like it did when you first fell in …
Put your arm around each other—This used to create sweaty palms, hesitancy, and even a disjointed thought process. The twitter in your heart ... «Ellwood City Ledger, Jul 15»
8
D.H. Williams, guest columnist: Christian ideals, principles drift when …
For the many churches that have not yet been consumed but where there exists a strong hesitancy on the part of pastors or elders to address ... «Waco Tribune-Herald, Jul 15»
9
Arkansas gets an 'F' on medical cost transparency, moves made to …
Advertisement: “As employers who most of us make a product to sell, we understand the hesitancy to share pricing. We really do,” she said. «The City Wire, Jul 15»
10
Hottest investment destinations in India | ET RealEstate
But buyers typically display hesitancy towards purchasing land in the outskirts of the cities. The primary reasons for their uncertainty are ... «ETRealty.com, Jul 15»

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