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indecision 音标拼音: [ɪndɪs'ɪʒən] n. 优柔寡断 优柔寡断 indecision n 1: doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or courses of action; " his indecision was only momentary but the opportunity was lost" [ synonym: { indecision}, { indecisiveness}, { irresolution}] 2: the trait of irresolution; a lack of firmness of character or purpose; " the king' s incurable indecisiveness caused turmoil in his court" [ synonym: { indecisiveness}, { indecision}] [ ant: { decision}, { decisiveness}] Indecision \ In` de* ci" sion\, n. [ Pref. in- not decision: cf. F. ind[' e] cision.] Lack of decision; lack of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation. [ 1913 Webster] The term indecision . . . implies an idea very nicely different from irresolution; yet it has a tendency to produce it. -- Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster] Indecision . . . is the natural accomplice of violence. -- Burke. [ 1913 Webster] 57 Moby Thesaurus words for " indecision": ambitendency, ambivalence, capriciousness, chance, chanciness, change of mind, changeableness, double- mindedness, dubiety, dubiousness, erraticism, erraticness, fence- sitting, fence- straddling, fickleness, fluctuation, hesitancy, hesitation, incalculability, incertitude, inconstancy, indecisiveness, indemonstrability, indeterminacy, indetermination, indeterminism, infirmity of purpose, instability, irresolution, luck, mercuriality, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, randomness, second thoughts, shilly- shally, shilly- shallying, suspense, suspensefulness, tergiversation, to- and- fro, unaccountability, uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unforeseeableness, unpredictability, unprovability, unsettledness, unsettlement, unsureness, unverifiability, vacillation, wavering, whimsicality
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