Qualm vs Hesitate - What's the difference?
qualm | hesitate |
Mortality; plague; pestilence.
A calamity or disaster.
A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.
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A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness.
A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. (Now chiefly in negative constructions.)
To stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination.
To stammer; to falter in speaking.
(transitive, poetic, rare) To utter with hesitation or to intimate by a reluctant manner.
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As a noun qualm
is smoke.As a verb hesitate is
to stop or pause respecting decision or action; to be in suspense or uncertainty as to a determination.qualm
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* (l) (dialectal)Noun
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Synonyms
* compunction * misgiving * scrupleDerived terms
* qualmish * qualmishly * qualmishness * qualmyhesitate
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* (archaic)Verb
(hesitat)- He hesitated''' whether to accept the offer or not; men often '''hesitate in forming a judgment.
- (Alexander Pope)
- Just hint a fault, and hesitate dislike.