vacillation

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• /væsɪˈleɪʃən/
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From Middle English vacillacion, a learned borrowing from Latin vacillātiō (“swaying”). By surface analysis, vacillate + -ion.

22 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Bulgarian: колебливост (koleblivost) — Indecision in speech or action
• Bulgarian: нереши́телност (nerešítelnost) — Indecision in speech or action
• Catalan: vacil·lació — Indecision in speech or action
• French: vacillation — Indecision in speech or action
• Georgian: ყოყმანი (q̇oq̇mani) — Indecision in speech or action
• Georgian: მერყეობა (merq̇eoba) — Indecision in speech or action
• Georgian: გადაუწყვეტლობა (gadauc̣q̇veṭloba) — Indecision in speech or action
• Georgian: ორჭოფობა (orč̣opoba) — Indecision in speech or action
• German: Unentschlossenheit — Indecision in speech or action
• German: Zögerlichkeit — Indecision in speech or action
• German: Unschlüssigkeit — Indecision in speech or action
• Greek: ταλάντευση (talántefsi) — Indecision in speech or action
• Irish: luaineacht — Indecision in speech or action
• Russian: нереши́тельность (nerešítelʹnostʹ) — Indecision in speech or action
• Spanish: vacilación — Indecision in speech or action
• Swedish: tveksamhet — Indecision in speech or action
• Bulgarian: люлеене (ljuleene) — Changing location by moving back and forth
• Bulgarian: колебание (kolebanie) — Changing location by moving back and forth
• Catalan: vacil·lació — Changing location by moving back and forth
• Greek: ταλάντευση (talántefsi) — Changing location by moving back and forth
• Hausa: zàrā — Changing location by moving back and forth
• Spanish: vacilación — Changing location by moving back and forth