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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
alternation, capriciousness, chance, chanciness, changeableness, dallying, demurral, dillydallying, equivocation, erraticism, erraticness, fickleness, fluctuation, frequency, frequency band, frequency spectrum, harmonic motion, hesitancy, hesitation, incalculability, incertitude, indecision, indecisiveness, indemonstrability, indeterminacy, indetermination, indeterminism, irresolution, libration, luck, nutation, oscillation, pendulation, periodicity, randomness, resonance, resonance frequency, seesawing, shifting, shilly-shally, shilly-shallying, shuffling, suspense, suspensefulness, teeter-tottering, teetering, tottering, unaccountability, uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unforeseeableness, unpredictability, unprovability, unsureness, unverifiability, variation, vibrancy, vibratility, vibration, vicissitude, wavering, whimsicality, wobbling
Dictionary Results for vacillation:
1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006)
vacillation
    n 1: indecision in speech or action [syn: hesitation,
         vacillation, wavering]
    2: changing location by moving back and forth [syn: swing,
       swinging, vacillation]

2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Vacillation \Vac`il*la"tion\, n. [L. vacillatio: cf. F.
   vacillation.]
   1. The act of vacillating; a moving one way and the other; a
      wavering.
      [1913 Webster]

            His vacillations, always exhibited most pitiably in
            emergencies.                          --Macaulay.
      [1913 Webster]

   2. Unsteadiness of purpose; changeableness.
      [1913 Webster]

            There is a vacillation, or an alternation of
            knowledge and doubt.                  --Jer. Taylor.
      [1913 Webster]

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