Indecision in speech or action.

synonyms: hesitation, wavering.

Roget 149: changeableness etc. adj.; mutability, inconstancy; versatility, mobility; instability, unstable equilibrium; vacillation etc. (irresolution) 605; fluctuation, vicissitude; alternation etc. (oscillation) 314.    restlessness etc. adj.. fidgets, disquiet; disquietude, inquietude; unrest; agitation etc. 315.    moon, Proteus, chameleon, quicksilver, shifting sands, weathercock, harlequin, Cynthia of the minute, April showers^†; wheel of Fortune; transientness etc. 111^†.    ... show more

Roget 475: uncertainty, incertitude, doubt; doubtfulness etc. adj.; dubiety, dubitation^†, dubitancy^†, dubitousness^†.    hesitation, suspense; perplexity, embarrassment, dilemma, bewilderment; timidity etc. (fear) 860; vacillation etc. 605; diaporesis^†, indetermination.    vagueness etc. adj.; haze, fog; obscurity etc. (darkness) 421; ambiguity etc. (double meaning) 520; contingency, dependence, dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility; open question etc. (question) 461; onus probandi [Lat.]; blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other; needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay; roving commission.    precariousness etc. adj.; fallibility.    ... show more

Roget 605: irresolution, infirmity of purpose, indecision; indetermination, undetermination^†; unsettlement; uncertainty etc. 475; demur, suspense; hesitating etc. v., hesitation, hesitancy; vacillation; changeableness etc. 149; fluctuation; alternation etc. (oscillation) 314; caprice etc. 608.    fickleness, levity, legerete [Fr.]; pliancy etc. (softness) 324; weakness; timidity etc. 860; cowardice etc. 862; half measures.    waverer, ass between two bundles of hay; shuttlecock, butterfly; wimp; doughface [U.S.].    ... show more

Roget 607: change of mind, change of intention, change of purpose; afterthought.    tergiversation, recantation; palinode, palinody^†; renunciation; abjuration^†, abjurement; defection etc. (relinquishment) 624; going over etc. v.; apostasy; retraction, retractation^†; withdrawal; disavowal etc. (negation) 536; revocation, revokement^†; reversal; repentance etc. 950; redintegratio amoris [Lat.].    coquetry; vacillation etc. 605; backsliding; volte-face [Fr.].    turn coat, turn tippet^†; rat, apostate, renegade; convert, pervert; proselyte, deserter; backslider; blackleg, crawfish [U.S.], scab [Slang], mugwump [U.S.], recidivist.    time server, time pleaser^†; timist^†, Vicar of Bray, trimmer, ambidexter^†; weathercock etc. (changeable) 149; Janus.    ... show more

Dutch: weifeling, aarzeling
Polish: wahliwość, chwiejność

Changing location by moving back and forth.

synonyms: swing, swinging.

Roget 314: oscillation; vibration, libration; motion of a pendulum; nutation; undulation; pulsation; pulse.    alternation; coming and going etc. v.; ebb and flow, flux and reflux, ups and down.    fluctuation; vacillation etc. (irresolution) 605.    wave, vibratiuncle^†, swing, beat, shake, wag, seesaw, dance, lurch, dodge; logan^†, loggan^†, rocking-stone, vibroscope^†.    ... show more

Dutch: wankeling, fluctuatie, golfbeweging, schommeling, slingerbeweging, slingering
Polish: zakołysanie