Usually means: Hesitation to state things definitively.
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  1. tentativeness: Merriam-Webster
  2. tentativeness: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. tentativeness: Collins English Dictionary
  4. tentativeness: Wordnik
  5. tentativeness: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. tentativeness: Wiktionary
  7. tentativeness: Dictionary.com
  8. tentativeness: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. tentativeness: Legal dictionary

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  1. tentativeness: Medical dictionary

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▸ noun:  The characteristic of being tentative.

Similar:
hesitativeness, reservedness, suspensiveness, hesitatingness, precariousness, trepidness, timorousness, timidness, tenuousness, nitency, more...

Opposite:
certainty, confidence, assurance, conviction

Types:
tentative, cautious, hesitant, reserved, self-doubting, self-critical, self-effacing, more...

Adjectives:
certain, such, very, great, extreme, same, own, initial, more, considerable, deliberate

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Similar:
hesitativeness, reservedness, suspensiveness, hesitatingness, precariousness, trepidness, timorousness, timidness, tenuousness, nitency, more...

Opposite:
certainty, confidence, assurance, conviction

Types:
tentative, cautious, hesitant, reserved, self-doubting, self-critical, self-effacing, more...

Adjectives:
certain, such, very, great, extreme, same, own, initial, more, considerable, deliberate



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