hesitation (n.)
- abeyance
- backwardness
- bashfulness
- break
- caesura
- calculation
- capriciousness
- care
- carefulness
- caution
- cautiousness
- cease-fire
- chance
- changeableness
- circumspection
- compunction
- courtesan
- delay
- deliberateness
- deliberation
- demimondaine
- demimonde
- demur
- demurral
- diffidence
- dilatoriness
- discretion
- doubt
- drop
- dubiety
- falter
- faltering
- fickleness
- hedge
- hedging
- heed
- heedfulness
- hesitance
- hesitancy
- holiday
- incertitude
- indecision
- indecisiveness
- indeterminacy
- indetermination
- indisposition
- interim
- interlude
- intermezzo
- intermission
- intermittence
- interruption
- interval
- irresolution
- judiciousness
- lapse
- laxness
- layoff
- letup
- luck
- lull
- mindfulness
- mistrust
- modesty
- mugwump
- objection
- palilalia
- pause
- procrastination
- protest
- prudence
- qualm
- randomness
- recess
- recoil
- reluctance
- remission
- remissness
- respite
- rest
- safeness
- scruple
- scrupulousness
- shrinking
- shyness
- slackness
- slowness
- solicitude
- stall
- stammer
- stand-down
- stay
- stutter
- suspense
- suspension
- temporization
- thoroughness
- truce
- uncertainness
- uncertainty
- uncommunicativeness
- unpredictability
- vacation
- vacillation
- wavering
- whimsicality
- whore