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Meanings of tentativeness in English

Spanish
hesitación

Tendancy to hesitate.

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hesitación
Usage of tentativeness in English
1
The fact that he remained standing imparted a tentativeness to the situation.
Never-Fail Blake
2
The reward came with an opener that highlighted the tentativeness of Boro.
The Guardian
3
His very ignorance and tentativeness may be, must be, a means of especial grace.
Yet Again
4
He nodded and swung away, moving with a peculiar tentativeness.
Operation Terror
5
They usually represented a first car for lower-middle-class people, who combined inexperience with extreme tentativeness.
Country driving: a journey through china from farm to factory
6
Though she chose her words with uncharacteristic tentativeness, she was coherent, clearheaded, and obviously not drugged.
Faefever
7
How drawings change - even 24 hours after a death; their tentativeness disappears, they become final.
The Guardian
8
The tentativeness and the degree to which Arsenal can overcome it make for an absorbing tale.
The Irish Times
9
He shook countless hands, squeezed countless shoulders, and lost all tentativeness in blessing all those who asked.
Stonewielder
10
The unstable compositions catch the looseness of the social arrangements-thetentativeness of the links between black and white.
The new yorker
11
It's time to clear away the tentativeness about the ideas you've had and take first steps toward manifesting them.
Ebony
12
Lute's eyes were quizzical as she asked with a tentativeness that was palpably assumed, "With-a-withMr. Barton?"
Moon-Face, and Other Stories
13
She recognized him by his tentativeness, the wary, unsure glance of a person being met by someone he doesn't really know.
I'd know you anywhere
14
Jazz coach Quin Snyder said taking care of the ball came about because his team did not play with any tentativeness.
Reuters
15
He did it sketchily, with casual tentativeness, so that when it was found among the papers there would be no suspicions.
The Little Lady of the Big House
16
I only thought," he went on, with tenderer tentativeness, "that it would be pleasant to work here near you."
From Sand Hill to Pine
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Tentativeness through the time