indecisiveness

Other forms of indecisiveness

plural

indecisivenesses·

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 indecisiveness

What does indecisiveness mean?

indecisiveness means "doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in indecisiveness?

indecisiveness has 5 syllables: in-decis-i-ve-ness. The stress falls on "decis". In IPA it is /ˌɪnˈdɛsɪsɪvnəs/.

What is another word for indecisiveness?

Close synonyms include indecision, irresolution, indecision. 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.

What is the opposite of indecisiveness?

The recorded antonyms are decisiveness.

Is indecisiveness a common word?

indecisiveness 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.