second-guessing
Doubting your choice
Second-guessing is questioning or doubting a decision after it's been made—either your own or someone else's.
To second-guess yourself is to revisit choices with uncertainty: I keep second-guessing whether I should have taken that job.
Second-guessing others often implies criticism or Monday-morning quarterbacking: Stop second-guessing the coach.
Delay from uncertainty
- uncertaintyState of being unsure
- indecisionFailure to decide
- waveringShowing unsteady resolve
- questioningSeeking answers through inquiry
overthinking · rumination · self-doubt · misgivings · reservations · skepticism · ambivalence · vacillation
Blocked airway condition
- yipsAthletic motor skill collapse
- nervesTense apprehension
- anxietyPersistent apprehensive distress
- pressureForce upon contact
hesitation · overthinking · freezing · self-sabotage · twisties · mental block · stagefright · inhibition
Seeking answers through inquiry
- challengingHard to accomplish
- scrutinizingExamining something very closely
- doubtingQuestioning the truth
- underminingWeakening by covert means
second opinion · nitpicking · backseat driving · micromanaging · fault-finding · criticizing · contradicting · overruling
hesitation
Delay from uncertainty
- uncertaintyState of being unsure
- indecisionFailure to decide
- waveringShowing unsteady resolve
questioning · overthinking · rumination · self-doubt · misgivings · reservations · skepticism · ambivalence · vacillation · waffling
choking
Blocked airway condition
pressure · hesitation · overthinking · freezing · self-sabotage · twisties · mental block · stagefright · inhibition · clutch
questioning
Seeking answers through inquiry
- challengingHard to accomplish
- scrutinizingExamining something very closely
- doubtingQuestioning the truth
undermining · second opinion · nitpicking · backseat driving · micromanaging · fault-finding · criticizing · contradicting · overruling
- skepticismdoubt, skeptic, doubts, debunker, doubtful
- doubtdoubt, doubts, doubting, doubtful, skepticism
- guessingguess, prediction, hypothesis, conjecture, speculation
- hesitatingpausing, stalling, wavering, faltering, delaying
- indecisionindecision, indecisiveness, conflicted, hesitation, indecisive
- insecuritiesinsecurity, self-doubt, low self-esteem, inadequacy, inferiority
second-guessingcertainty
Total absence of doubt
confidence · conviction · decisiveness · assurance · self-assurance
second-guessingtrusting
Inclined to believe others
deferring · accepting · faith · blind trust · taking at face value
second-guessingcommitting
Carrying out an act
deciding · following through · resolve · determination · commitment
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