What's the difference between indecision and inrecision?
Indecision
Definition:
(n.) Want of decision; want of settled purpose, or of firmness; indetermination; wavering of mind; irresolution; vacillation; hesitation.
Example Sentences:
(1) Another indecisive election result could do for it.
(2) This dilemma is at the heart of many people's anguished indecision over the wisdom of our action in Iraq.
(3) The decision to drop the tax is a personal blow for Hollande and only one of a number of government U-turns since he was elected, fuelling criticism that he is indecisive and lacking presidential authority.
(4) She has already started her rounds of the constituencies to garner support, and has profited from Johnson’s indecision on whether he would or would not return to parliament.
(5) I graduated in 2012 and since then i've worked some freelance work in sound engineering, photography and videography and taken on only one part time job, moved between two cities generally being indecisive about my future.
(6) The procedure can be done smoothly and quickly without any indecision as to its consequences.
(7) Pringle found these conferences “brilliant and often informative”, but “they used to drive me nearly frantic because of the difficulty of getting a decision.’ Katharine Whitehorn , the women’s page editor, famously declared that “the editor’s indecision is final”, but although Astor would sometimes allow his journalists to vent opposing views in print as well in person – Nora Beloff and Robert Stephens on Israel and Palestine, for example – he always had the final say.
(8) The reported arms deal comes at a time when Saudi Arabia, a traditional US ally, has sharply criticised the United States for what it regards as indecisiveness on Syria, as well as Washington's attempts at reconciliation with Iran, Saudi Arabia's regional rival.
(9) It was stressed that besides the kidney functional state the state of certain basic clinical indecision had also to be given consideration, as blood pressure values, cardiovascular system state, presence of difficult-to-be-corrected anemia as well as certain social factors.
(10) Elastica, The Menace (Deceptive, 2000) Hip, arty and bristling with pop hooks, Elastica's eponymous debut was one of Britpop's finest hours, but fluctuating line-ups, indecision and heroin dogged the follow-up.
(11) Ed Miliband was either too indecisive in his rejection of Blairism, or simply an inadequate exponent of that view.
(12) Johnson is the master-builder of that image, deflecting every lie, every gaffe, dishonesty and U-turn with some self-deprecating metaphor: calling his feigned indecision “veering all over the place like a shopping trolley” was worth a world of worthy platitudes.
(13) Some, however, expressed frustration at what they saw as indecisive tactics by their senior command, as well as a general lack of police numbers and of riot-trained backup officers.
(14) The word is none-too flattering, meaning being indecisive, or failing to have an opinion on something – behaviour that Germans often attribute to Merkel.
(15) He indirectly signalled that Europe's attempts to get to grips with the crisis over the past 18 months had been disjointed, indecisive, and unproductive.
(16) The fear of looking ridiculous is one of the primary reasons that bold decisions like this are not taken, because when you start weighing up the myriad ways a particular course of action could go wrong, then you become riddled with self-doubt, second-guess yourself and become paralysed with fear and indecision.
(17) In a finer grain analysis, the stable and commonly endorsed individual PDQ items were compared with previously reported panic disorder and normal control subjects, which showed that the present sample was more like the panic patients in their tendency to see themselves as rather unassertive, indecisive, self-critical, and emotional individuals who are easily frustrated and feel rejected when criticized by others.
(18) A government audit also found about half of the reconstruction budget had yet to be distributed owing to red tape and indecision over how the affected communities should be rebuilt.
(19) This is about much more than Tony Blair's slipperiness or Gordon Brown's indecisiveness.
(20) For months she has held to a hard line; now her toughness is beginning to look like indecisiveness.
Inrecision
Definition:
(n.) A cutting off, through, or asunder; interruption.