Meaning & use
Vacillation
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Indecision or wavering between different opinions or actions.
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His constant vacillation over the job offer frustrated his family.
The committee's vacillation delayed the project by several months.
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From Latin vacillare, 'to sway or totter,' the word originally described physical unsteadiness before taking on its figurative sense.
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