tergiversation

Signification (Anglais)

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of abandoning something or someone, of changing sides; desertion; betrayal.
2. (countable, uncountable) The act of evading any clear course of action or speech, of being deliberately ambiguous; equivocation; fickleness.

Concepts

dérobade

apostasie

argutie

échappatoire

tergiversation

Synonymes

subterfuge

elusion

equivocation

apostasy

evasion

guile

inconstancy

instability

loophole

lubricity

mercurialness

mutability

prevarication

quibble

quirk

shift

skittishness

stall

treachery

volatileness

apostacy

deception

defection

dodge

Traductions

sotterfugio

Ausflucht

evasiva

tergiversació

apostasia

Ausflüchte

Spitzfindigkeit

Quiddität

αστασία

παλινωδία

υπεκφυγή

cavillo

appiccagnolo

🪝

calumnia

Prononcé comme (IPA)

/tɝd͡ʒɪvɚˈseɪʃən/

Étymologie (Anglais)

From Latin tergiversātiō, from tergiversārī (“to turn one's back, to evade, to avoid”) + -tiō (“-tion: forming abstract nouns”). Equivalent to tergiversate + -ion.