[syn: indecisiveness, indecision]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Indecisiveness \In`de*ci"sive*ness\, n.
The state of being indecisive; unsettled state.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
indecisiveness
n 1: doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or
courses of action; "his indecision was only momentary but
the opportunity was lost" [syn: indecision,
indecisiveness, irresolution]
2: the trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character or
purpose; "the king's incurable indecisiveness caused turmoil
in his court" [syn: indecisiveness, indecision] [ant:
decision, decisiveness]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
116 Moby Thesaurus words for "indecisiveness":
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