vacillation

English

WOTD – 3 November 2015

Etymology

From Latin vacillatio "swaying".

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /væsɪˈleɪʃən/

  • Audio (Southern England):

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

Noun

vacillation (countable and uncountable, plural vacillations)

1. Indecision in speech or action.
2. Changing location by moving back and forth.

Synonyms

• (indecision): hesitation, wavering
• (motion): swing, swinging

Translations

Indecision in speech or action

• Bulgarian: колебливост (bg) f (koleblivost), нереши́телност (bg) f (nerešítelnost)
• Catalan: vacil·lació (ca) f
• Georgian: ყოყმანი (q̇oq̇mani), მერყეობა (merq̇eoba), გადაუწყვეტლობა (gadauc̣q̇veṭloba), ორჭოფობა (orč̣opoba)
• German: Unentschlossenheit (de) f, Zögerlichkeit f, Unschlüssigkeit (de) f
• Greek: ταλάντευση (el) f (talántefsi)
• Irish: luaineacht f
• Russian: нереши́тельность (ru) f (nerešítelʹnostʹ)
• Spanish: vacilación (es) f
• Swedish: tveksamhet (sv) c

Changing location by moving back and forth

• Bulgarian: люлеене (bg) n (ljuleene), колебание (bg) n (kolebanie)
• Catalan: vacil·lació (ca) f
• Greek: ταλάντευση (el) f (talántefsi)
• Hausa: zàrā f
• Spanish: vacilación (es) f

See also

• vacillate

Anagrams

• cavillation

French

Pronunciation

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Noun

vacillation f (plural vacillations)

1. vacillation

Further reading

• “vacillation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.