Synonyms of tentativeness

1 Syllable
qualm, doubt
2 Syllables
scruple, mistrust, pause, delaying, stumbling, dawdling, delay, fumbling
3 Syllables
fluctuation, stuttering, stammering, demurral, timidness, skepticism, to-and-fro, faltering, wavering, misgiving, dubiety
4 Syllables
timidity, unwillingness, vacillations, reluctance, indecision, oscillation, vacillation, hesitancy, shilly-shally, averseness
5 Syllables
indisposition, procrastination, irresolution, ambivalence, equivocation
6 Syllables
irresoluteness, indecisiveness