hesitancy
noun
hesitation; indecision or disinclination.
hesitancies
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pluralof hesitancy.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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Many medical professionals, like experts at Seattle’s Glow Medispa, are now working even harder to clear up misinformation and to assuage common hesitancies.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 7, 2024
Public life has been gripped by a sense we won’t go back to what we did before, thanks to health hesitancies or simply because we got used to doing things a new way during shutdowns.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 30, 2021
"There’s different kinds of hesitancies, right? So I don’t think that there’s much excuse to not know the information available anymore. Hence that’s why I think it should be mandatory at this stage," he explained.
From Fox News ● Aug. 11, 2021
But participants learn about their own hesitancies in the process and test out new strategies.
From Forbes ● Sep. 23, 2014
Instead of the reluctances and attractions, the hesitancies and aspirations, the preliminary and common conflagrations which are the beginnings, as they are also the sacraments, of love, abruptly they were one.
From Historia Amoris: A History of Love, Ancient and Modern by Edgar Saltus
