Definition of "tentativeness" [tentativeness]

• The characteristic of being tentative. (noun)

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• "Payton forged a peace between the two ragtime favorites by making his compositional technique self-evident: starting off slowly and laying the melodies out as if unfolding a blueprint; the widely spaced note placements could be heard as tentative, but the tentativeness was a ploy, and as the piece progressed it built up steam, like a locomotive getting underway."
• "If the market fails to get past those levels, and we see some kind of tentativeness or nervousness coming in around"
• "The "tentativeness" of the conclusions was emphasized in the original 1999 article. the question that was actually debated by the IPCC chapter 2 co-authors was how to make an assessment of confidence given that one of the three studies (Mann et al) had estimated uncertainties in reconstructed values, making it possible to obtain a statistical estimate of significance, and allowing the conclusion to be drawn that recent warmth was "likely" anomalous in at least the past 1000 years."