Define the word Vacillation"Vacillation" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"
Vacillation \Vac`il*la"tion\, n. [L. vacillatio: cf. F.
vacillation.]
1. The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a
wavering.
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His vacillations, always exhibited most pitiably in
emergencies. --Macaulay.
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2. Unsteadiness of purpose; changeableness.
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There is a vacillation, or an alternation of
knowledge and doubt. --Jer. Taylor.
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"vacillation" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"
vacillation
n 1: indecision in speech or action [syn: hesitation, wavering]
2: changing location by moving back and forth [syn: swing, swinging]
"vacillation" moby-thes "Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0"
66 Moby Thesaurus words for "vacillation":
alternation, capriciousness, chance, chanciness, changeableness,
dallying, demurral, dillydallying, equivocation, erraticism,
erraticness, fickleness, fluctuation, frequency, frequency band,
frequency spectrum, harmonic motion, hesitancy, hesitation,
incalculability, incertitude, indecision, indecisiveness,
indemonstrability, indeterminacy, indetermination, indeterminism,
irresolution, libration, luck, nutation, oscillation, pendulation,
periodicity, randomness, resonance, resonance frequency, seesawing,
shifting, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shuffling, suspense,
suspensefulness, teeter-tottering, teetering, tottering,
unaccountability, uncertainness, uncertainty,
uncertainty principle, undecidedness, undeterminedness,
unforeseeableness, unpredictability, unprovability, unsureness,
unverifiability, variation, vibrancy, vibratility, vibration,
vicissitude, wavering, whimsicality, wobbling
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