vacillation

Noun

Meaning

The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a wavering.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

swing swinging hesitation wavering seesaw oscillation doubt resonance instability vibration skepticism reluctance insecurity apprehension fluctuation
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Antonyms

fidelity decision faith resolution confidence resolve
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Hypernyms

move movement motion indecision indecisiveness irresolution

Anagrams

cavillation

Examples

This is a wrong course the Chinese comrades are trying to lead us on to, it is an opportunist road of vacillation and concessions to the Khrushchev traitor group which finds itself in grave difficulties, and is intriguing in order to escape defeat. Enver Hoxha

It has not been unknown that judges persist in error to avoid giving the appearance of weakness and vacillation. Felix Frankfurter

Discontinuity, then, is the essential form in which the unconscious first appears to us as a phenomenon-discontinuity, in which something is manifested as a vacillation. Jacques Lacan

If vacillation dwell with the heart the soul will rue it. Wolfram von Eschenbach

He has conferred on the practice of vacillation the aura of statesmanship. Kenneth Baker, Baron Baker of Dorking

Different though the sexes are, they inter-mix. In every human being a vacillation from one sex to the other takes place, and often it is only the clothes that keep the male or female likeness, while underneath the sex is very opposite of what it is above. Virginia Woolf

Close letter words and terms

vacillate about vacillating vacillatingly vacillative vacillator vacillatory