indecisiveness

indecisiveness
    n 1: doubt concerning two or more possible alternatives or
         courses of action; "his indecision was only momentary but
         the opportunity was lost" [syn: {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" [syn: {indecisiveness}, {indecision}] [ant:
       {decision}, {decisiveness}]
    

Indecisiveness \In`de*ci"sive*ness\, n.
   The state of being indecisive; unsettled state.
   [1913 Webster]
    

116 Moby Thesaurus words for "indecisiveness":
      ambitendency, ambivalence, amiable weakness, amorphia, amorphism,
      amorphousness, anarchy, blobbiness, blurriness, breakability,
      brittleness, broadness, capriciousness, chance, chanciness,
      change of mind, changeableness, chaos, collapse, confusion,
      daintiness, delicacy, destructibility, disintegration, disorder,
      double-mindedness, dubiety, dubiousness, effeminacy, entropy,
      erraticism, erraticness, fence-sitting, fence-straddling,
      fickleness, flimsiness, fogginess, formlessness, fragility,
      frailty, frangibility, fuzziness, generality, haziness, hesitancy,
      hesitation, human frailty, ill-definedness, imprecision,
      inaccuracy, incalculability, incertitude, inchoateness,
      incoherence, inconstancy, indecision, indefinableness,
      indefiniteness, indemonstrability, indeterminacy,
      indeterminateness, indetermination, indeterminism, indistinctness,
      inexactness, infirmity of purpose, infirmity of will,
      inherent vice, instability, irresolution, laxity, lightness,
      looseness, luck, mercuriality, messiness, mistiness,
      moral weakness, mugwumpery, mugwumpism, obscuration, obscurity,
      orderlessness, randomness, second thoughts, shapelessness,
      shilly-shally, sleaziness, slightness, suspense, suspensefulness,
      sweepingness, tergiversation, to-and-fro, unaccountability,
      uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, unclearness,
      undecidedness, undeterminedness, unforeseeableness,
      unpredictability, unprovability, unsettledness, unsettlement,
      unsubstantiality, unsureness, unverifiability, vacillation,
      vagueness, velleity, wavering, whimsicality, wispiness,
      womanishness