vacillation

From Middle English vacillacion, a learned borrowing from Latin vacillātiō (“swaying”).^[1] By surface analysis, vacillate +‎ -ion.

• IPA^(key): /væsɪˈleɪʃən/

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• Rhymes: -eɪʃən

vacillation (countable and uncountable, plural vacillations)

1. Indecision in speech or action.
2. Changing location by moving back and forth.

• (indecision): hesitation, wavering
• (motion): swing, swinging

• vacillate

• cavillation

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vacillation f (plural vacillations)

1. vacillation

• “vacillation”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012