hesitancy

hesitancy is a 9-letter English word with 4 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates. Face value is 17 in Scrabble and 17 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

9 letters · Scrabble 17 · Words With Friends 17 · 4 senses

Definitions

1. noun. The act of hesitating, or pausing to consider; slowness in deciding; vacillation; also, the manner of one who hesitates.
2. noun. A stammering; a faltering in speech.
3. noun. a certain degree of unwillingness

   "a reluctance to commit himself"

   "his hesitancy revealed his basic indisposition"

   Synonyms: disinclination, hesitation, indisposition, reluctance

4. noun. a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something

   Synonyms: hesitance

Synonyms

disinclination, hesitation, indisposition, reluctance, hesitance

Common word forms

hesitancies

Words from these letters

If you are holding these tiles, the unscrambler for HESITANCY lists every valid word you can make from the same letters, including shorter plays.