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indecision

/ɪndɪˈsɪʒən/ noun C2
  1. The inability to decide on a course of action, especially if two or more possibilities exist. (uncountable) · Billy Toad has shown extreme indecision in all aspects when it comes to his jeep. Whether it's how to modify it, or if he will sell it.

Plural indecisions

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To know that she had the power of revealing what would so exceedingly astonish Jane, and must, at the same time, so highly gratify whatever of her own vanity she had not yet been able to reason away, was such a temptation to openness as nothing could have conquered, but the state of indecision in which she remained as to the extent of what she should communicate, and her fear, if she once entered on the subject, of being hurried into repeating something of Bingley, which might only grieve her sister further.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 252 · B2
Again Barker showed some signs of indecision.
The Valley of Fear, p. 55 · C1
Anger, amazement, consternation, and indecision swept over it in turn.
The Valley of Fear, p. 90 · C1
This pervasive, creeping indecision is largely driven by the inescapable economic concept of opportunity cost, which quietly haunts every selection we make.
The Tyranny of Choice, p. 1 · C2

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