hesitancy

Domain: Universal Words

Part of speech: noun

[U] the state or quality of being slow or uncertain in doing or saying sth: I noticed a certain hesitancy in his voice.

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This is a English–English dictionary entry.

Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.

This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.

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hesitancyEnglish›ChineseGetWord Corpus hesitancyEnglish›ChineseMain Dictionary

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