dithering

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Verb

dithering

1. present participle and gerund of dither

Noun

dithering (plural ditherings)

1. The act of one who dithers.
   • 2002, Susan Mann, Dream of Nation, page 36:

     Even though it became clear as early as 1766 that a separate policy for Quebec was required, eight long years of delays and ditherings lay between that recognition and actual legislation in the Quebec Act.