irresolution
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of irresolution
First recorded in 1585–95; irresolute + -ion
Vocabulary lists containing irresolution
Example Sentences
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Declaring an uneasy truce with irresolution, she is aware that she’ll never know X, “as if we could ever say for certain where she ended and where the world began.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 20, 2023
I think with a good story you have a question in the back of your mind and the storyteller knows how to create an irresolution or imbalance that you are waiting to experience.
From Salon ● May 29, 2020
‘You cannot exaggerate the intensity of man’s inner irresolution and craving for authority,” Freud told a congress of psychoanalysts in 1910.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 12, 2018
The vagueness and irresolution in this episode could be taken as a warning, reminding us that endings can take longer to play out than we might expect — or hope.
From New York Times ● May 21, 2017
He looked then for weakness in her face, for fear or irresolution, and there was none.
From "The Pearl" by John Steinbeck
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