English-Thai Dictionary

indecision

N ความ ไม่แน่ใจ  ความ ละล้าละลัง  ความลังเล  hesitation vacillation decision kwam-mai-nea-jai

 

Webster's 1828 Dictionary

INDECISION

n.s as z. [in and decision. ] Want of decision; want of settled purpose or of firmness in the determinations of the will; a wavering of mind; irresolution.

 

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

INDECISION

In `de *ci "sion, n. Etym: [Pref. in- not + decision: cf. F.indécision.]

 

Defn: Want of decision; want of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation. The term indecision. .. implies an idea very nicely different from irresolution; yet it has a tendency to produce it. Shenstone. Indecision. .. is the natural accomplice of violence. Burke.

 

New American Oxford Dictionary

indecision

in de ci sion |ˌindiˈsiZHən ˈˌɪndəˈˌsɪʒən | ▶noun the inability to make a decision quickly. ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from French indécision, from in- (expressing negation ) + décision, from Latin decisio (n- ), from the verb decidere (see decide ).

 

Oxford Dictionary

indecision

in |deci |sion |ɪndɪˈsɪʒ (ə )n | ▶noun [ mass noun ] the inability to make a decision quickly. ORIGIN mid 18th cent.: from French indécision, from in- (expressing negation ) + décision, from Latin decisio (n- ), from the verb decidere (see decide ).

 

American Oxford Thesaurus

indecision

indecision noun many an opportunity has been lost to indecision: indecisiveness, irresolution, hesitancy, hesitation, tentativeness; ambivalence, doubt, doubtfulness, uncertainty, incertitude; vacillation, wavering, equivocation, second thoughts; shilly-shallying, dithering, temporizing, hemming and hawing, dilly-dallying, sitting on the fence; formal dubiety.

 

Oxford Thesaurus

indecision

indecision noun she was rooted to the spot, torn by indecision: indecisiveness, irresolution, irresoluteness, lack of resolution, hesitancy, hesitation, tentativeness; ambivalence, doubt, doubtfulness, unsureness, uncertainty; vacillation, equivocation, oscillation, wavering, teetering, fluctuation, faltering, second thoughts; delay, hanging back, waiting, shilly-shallying, dithering, stalling, temporizing, temporization; Brit. havering, humming and hawing; Scottish swithering; informal dilly-dallying, blowing hot and cold, sitting on the fence; rare dubiety, incertitude, cunctation. ANTONYMS decision, decisiveness.

 

French Dictionary

indécision

indécision n. f. nom féminin Hésitation. : Cette personne est dans l ’indécision, elle n ’arrive pas à faire un choix. SYNONYME incertitude ; irrésolution ; perplexité .

 

Spanish Dictionary

indecisión

indecisión nombre femenino Falta de decisión :lo que me saca de quicio es su indecisión; se aprovechaban de su indecisión para obligarlo a hacer siempre lo que a ellos les apetecía .

 

Sanseido Wisdom Dictionary

indecision

in de ci sion /ɪ̀ndɪsɪ́ʒ (ə )n /名詞 U 優柔不断, 不決断 ; 躊躇 （ちゆうちよ ）.