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
To identify the roots of these beliefs and hesitancies, Amin and Omer went deeper than most other research on fear of childhood vaccines.
From Slate ● Feb. 4, 2019
There is nothing more pathetic in the literature of the period than his hesitancies and fears.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 09 by Rossiter Johnson
