hesitancy

Other forms of hesitancy

plural

hesitancies·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about hesitancy

What does hesitancy mean?

hesitancy means "a feeling of diffidence and indecision about doing something". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in hesitancy?

hesitancy has 4 syllables: hes-i-tan-cy. The stress falls on "hes". In IPA it is /ˈhɛzɪtənsi/.

What is another word for hesitancy?

Close synonyms include hesitance, reluctance, hesitation, disinclination, indisposition. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is hesitancy a common word?

hesitancy is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.