vacillation

vacillation
    n 1: indecision in speech or action [syn: {hesitation},
         {vacillation}, {wavering}]
    2: changing location by moving back and forth [syn: {swing},
       {swinging}, {vacillation}]
    

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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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