"vacillation" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /væsɪˈleɪʃən/ Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-vacillation.wav [Southern-England] Forms: vacillations [plural]
Rhymes: -eɪʃən Etymology: From Latin vacillatio "swaying". : Compare oscillation Etymology templates: {{uder|en|la|-}} Latin Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} vacillation (countable and uncountable, plural vacillations)
  1. Indecision in speech or action. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (indecision): hesitation, wavering Translations (Indecision in speech or action): колебливост (koleblivost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), нереши́телност (nerešítelnost) [feminine] (Bulgarian), vacil·lació [feminine] (Catalan), ყოყმანი (q̇oq̇mani) (Georgian), მერყეობა (merq̇eoba) (Georgian), გადაუწყვეტლობა (gadauc̣q̇veṭloba) (Georgian), ორჭოფობა (orč̣opoba) (Georgian), Unentschlossenheit [feminine] (German), Zögerlichkeit [feminine] (German), Unschlüssigkeit [feminine] (German), ταλάντευση (talántefsi) [feminine] (Greek), luaineacht [feminine] (Irish), нереши́тельность (nerešítelʹnostʹ) [feminine] (Russian), vacilación [feminine] (Spanish), tveksamhet [common-gender] (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-vacillation-en-noun-RTBykTLJ Disambiguation of 'indecision': 75 25 Disambiguation of 'Indecision in speech or action': 96 4
  2. Changing location by moving back and forth. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (Changing location by moving back and forth): люлеене (ljuleene) [neuter] (Bulgarian), колебание (kolebanie) [neuter] (Bulgarian), vacil·lació [feminine] (Catalan), ταλάντευση (talántefsi) [feminine] (Greek), zàrā [feminine] (Hausa), vacilación [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-vacillation-en-noun-efB~vKrn Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with language name categories using raw markup, English undefined derivations Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 29 71 Disambiguation of English entries with language name categories using raw markup: 27 73 Disambiguation of English undefined derivations: 29 71 Disambiguation of 'Changing location by moving back and forth': 2 98
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms (motion): swing, swinging Related terms: vacillate
Disambiguation of 'motion': 0 0

Noun [French]

Audio: LL-Q150 (fra)-WikiLucas00-vacillation.wav Forms: vacillations [plural]
Head templates: {{fr-noun|f}} vacillation f (plural vacillations)
  1. vacillation Tags: feminine
    Sense id: en-vacillation-fr-noun-Xxtd-5OZ Categories (other): French entries with incorrect language header

Inflected forms

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If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.