Indecisiveness

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Indecisiveness \In`de*ci"sive*ness\, n.
     The state of being indecisive; unsettled state.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:



  indecisiveness
       n 1: doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or
            courses of action; "his indecision was only momentary
            but the opportunity was lost" [syn: {indecision}, {irresolution}]
       2: the trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character
          or purpose; "the king's incurable indecisiveness caused
          turmoil in his court" [syn: {indecision}] [ant: {decisiveness},
           {decisiveness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  116 Moby Thesaurus words for "indecisiveness":
     ambitendency, ambivalence, amiable weakness, amorphia, amorphism,
     amorphousness, anarchy, blobbiness, blurriness, breakability,
     brittleness, broadness, capriciousness, chance, chanciness,
     change of mind, changeableness, chaos, collapse, confusion,
     daintiness, delicacy, destructibility, disintegration, disorder,
     double-mindedness, dubiety, dubiousness, effeminacy, entropy,
     erraticism, erraticness, fence-sitting, fence-straddling,
     fickleness, flimsiness, fogginess, formlessness, fragility,
     frailty, frangibility, fuzziness, generality, haziness, hesitancy,
     hesitation, human frailty, ill-definedness, imprecision,
     inaccuracy, incalculability, incertitude, inchoateness,
     incoherence, inconstancy, indecision, indefinableness,
     indefiniteness, indemonstrability, indeterminacy,
     indeterminateness, indetermination, indeterminism, indistinctness,
     inexactness, infirmity of purpose, infirmity of will,
     inherent vice, instability, irresolution, laxity, lightness,
     looseness, luck, mercuriality, messiness, mistiness,
     moral weakness, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, obscuration, obscurity,
     orderlessness, randomness, second thoughts, shapelessness,
     shilly-shally, sleaziness, slightness, suspense, suspensefulness,
     sweepingness, tergiversation, to-and-fro, unaccountability,
     uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, unclearness,
     undecidedness, undeterminedness, unforeseeableness,
     unpredictability, unprovability, unsettledness, unsettlement,
     unsubstantiality, unsureness, unverifiability, vacillation,
     vagueness, velleity, wavering, whimsicality, wispiness,
     womanishness