(n.) The act of temporizing.

Fabian policy Micawberism abeyance averseness backwardness balbuties bashfulness boggle boggling break caesura calculation canniness capriciousness care careful consideration carefulness caution cautiousness cease-fire chance chanciness changeableness circumspection compunction courtesan day off delay deliberate stages deliberateness deliberation demimondaine demimonde demirep demur demurral diffidence dilatoriness discretion doubt drop dubiety dysphemia erraticism erraticness falter faltering fancy woman fickleness gingerliness guardedness hedge hedging heed heedfulness hesitance hesitancy hesitating hetaera hold-off holiday incalculability incertitude indecision indecisiveness indemonstrability indeterminacy indetermination indeterminism indisposition interim interlude intermezzo intermission intermittence interruption interval irresolution judiciousness kept lapse laxness layoff letup luck lull mindfulness mistrust modesty mugwump objection palilalia pause pawkiness prior consultation procrastination protest prudence prudentialness qualm qualm of conscience qualmishness randomness recess recoil regardfulness reluctance remission remissness respite rest safeness safety first scruple scrupulosity scrupulousness shilly-shally shilly-shallying shrinking shyness slackness slowness slowness to act solicitude stall stammer stammering stand-down stay stickling stutter stuttering suspense suspensefulness suspension temporization tentativeness thoroughness to-and-fro traulism truce unaccountability uncertainness uncertainty uncertainty principle uncommunicativeness undecidedness undeterminedness unforeseeableness unprecipitateness unpredictability unprovability unsureness unverifiability vacation vacillation wavering whimsicality whore