Usually means: Delay or procrastination; slow action.
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  1. cunctation: Merriam-Webster
  2. cunctation: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. cunctation: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. cunctation: Collins English Dictionary
  5. cunctation: Vocabulary.com
  6. cunctation: Wordnik
  7. cunctation: Wiktionary
  8. cunctation: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. cunctation: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Cunctation, cunctation: Dictionary.com
  11. Cunctation: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  12. cunctation: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  13. cunctation: Rhymezone
  14. Cunctation: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  15. cunctation: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  16. cunctation: FreeDictionary.org
  17. cunctation: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  18. cunctation: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. cunctation: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. cunctation: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. cunctation: A Word A Day
  2. cunctation: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (cunctation)

▸ noun:  (obsolete) Delay, hesitation, procrastination.

Similar:
procrastination, shillyshally, cunctatorship, caudation, cusping, cantitruncation, cuspation, caviling, runcicantitruncation, cæsura, more...

Opposite:
promptness, expeditiousness, efficiency, swiftness, alacrity

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Similar:
procrastination, shillyshally, cunctatorship, caudation, cusping, cantitruncation, cuspation, caviling, runcicantitruncation, cæsura, more...

Opposite:
promptness, expeditiousness, efficiency, swiftness, alacrity



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