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1. Indecision in speech or action
   - vacillation, wavering
    
2. A certain degree of unwillingness
   "after some hesitation he agreed";
   - reluctance, hesitancy, disinclination, indisposition
    
3. The act of pausing uncertainly
   "there was a hesitation in his speech";
   - waver, falter, faltering

Derived forms: hesitations

Type of: indecision, indecisiveness, involuntariness, irresolution, pause, unwillingness

Encyclopedia: Hesitation