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What does hesitancy mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word hesitancy? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. A pausing or halting before beginning a task, often as a result of some fear or uncertainty about the outcome.
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Why, with all its strengths and opportunities, does it display such hesitancy?
He had been dramming at intervals since breakfast, and he no longer approached the bar with hesitancy.
He conveys John's hesitancy as a lack of assertiveness, rather than a character flaw.
With interest and hesitancy, she studied the antiwar signs that bestrewed the neighborhood lawns.
The hesitancy and uncertainty that characterised the lead-up to this conflict has now been taken into the battlefield.
The hieroglyphic inscription, although carved with hesitancy, is grammatically proper Egyptian.

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