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Hesitation vs Fluctuation - What's the difference?

hesitation | fluctuation |

As nouns the difference between hesitation and fluctuation

is that hesitation is an act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation while fluctuation is a motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction.

hesitation

Alternative forms

* (chiefly archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An act of hesitating; suspension of opinion or action; doubt; vacillation.
  • A faltering in speech; stammering.
  • fluctuation

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction.
  • the fluctuations of the sea
  • A wavering; unsteadiness.
  • fluctuations of opinion
    fluctuations of prices
  • In medicine, a wave-like motion or undulation of a fluid in a natural or abnormal cavity (e.g. pus in an abscess), which is felt during palpation or percussion.