vacillation.

Repeated movement between choices or opinions without settling on one.

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Words that belong together

• political vacillation
• prolonged vacillation

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After weeks of vacillation, the committee postponed the vote again.

Usage notes

Primary category: literary / elevated general. Forms: Usually uncountable; no ordinary plural in this sense. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Commonness: moderately common.