hesitance
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Noun
hesitance (countable and uncountable, plural hesitances)
- The act or state of hesitating.
- His hesitance was caused by bad past experiences.
- 1925, Robinson Jeffers, “Roan Stallion”, in The Selected Poetry of Robinson Jeffers, New York: Random House, published 1937, page 156:
- […] Then California, resting the rifle / On the top rail, without doubting, without hesitance, / Aimed for the leaping body of the dog, and when it stood, fired.
- 2016 May 6, Times of India:
- No matter how much one denies it, there is always some hesitance when shooting an intimate scene. But an actor needs to shed inhibitions to look convincing.
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