SuaviloquyToday’s word

indecision

Indecision, n.

Etymology: [Pref. in- not + decision: cf. F. indécision.]

Want of decision; want of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation. The term indecision . . . implies an idea very nicely different from irresolution; yet it has a tendency to produce it. Shenstone. Indecision . . . is the natural accomplice of violence. Burke.

Shades of meaning

Fernald has no entry of its own for indecision; he lists it under doubt.

Where he writes about it:

Misgiving is ordinarily in regard to the outcome of something already done or decided; hesitation, indecision, and irresolution have reference to something that remains to be decided or done, and are due oftener to infirmity of will than to lack of knowledge. — from doubt