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单词 tentativeness
释义
tentativeness
noun[U]
uk
/ˈten.tə.tɪv.nəs/us
/ˈten.t̬ə.t̬ɪv.nəs/
thequalityof not beingcertainorconfident:
The team's tentativeness at thestartwasunderstandable.
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tentative
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  • Her tentativenessseemsnaturalfor someone who hasn't beenonstagein acoupleofdecades.
  • There was a tentativeness in some of hersinging, anunderstandableunwillingnesstolethervoiceflow.
  • At first there was anunderstandabletentativeness about hiscaptaincy.
  • He isdisarmingin his tentativeness , hismodesty, hisself-doubt.
  • There is also tentativeness amongvoters, whoworryabout hisexperienceandabilityto getelected.
SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases
Doubt & ambivalence
  • ambivalence
  • ambivalent
  • ambivalently
  • askance
  • be in two mindsidiom
  • have a foot in both campsidiom
  • haw
  • hem
  • hem and hawidiom
  • hum and hawidiom
  • nonconcern
  • nonplussed
  • quandary
  • rudderless
  • shades of greyidiom
  • wary
  • waver
  • wavering
  • wishy-washy
  • wobble
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Uncertainty
(Definition oftentativenessfrom theCambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesoftentativeness

tentativeness
The language features investigated are those which have to do with the relativetentativenessof an utterance.
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She may rightly reject the wisdom of striving fortentativenessor non-belief.
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The modified claims that believers should at least strive towardstentativenessor towards non-belief are also inadequate.
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As we will see in section 3, the past tense is used here for reasons of discoursetentativeness, although it may also be meant to be sarcastic.
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We discuss the nature of discoursetentativeness, the pragmatic reasons for using an attitudinal modal past form, and the observation that complement clauses of thought sometimes yield several modal readings.
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By using this hedge, a speaker can add the nuance oftentativenessto an utterance, which has the effect of evading commitment and softening the statement.
From theCambridge English Corpus
I do not share the view expressed as to thetentativenessof paragraph 10 of the communiqué.
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I have never understood thetentativenessabout freight on this high-speed line.
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One should not draw a distinction between gentleness andtentativeness.
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Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under theOpen Parliament Licence v3.0
Despite thetentativenessof their titles, these monographs introduced radical interpretations of nature that would reverberate through the sciences, and particularly the biology, of the next century.
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