tentativeness

tentative | American Dictionary

tentative
adjective
us/ˈten·tə·t̬ɪv/
not certain or confident:
We have tentative plans to go to Hawaii in February.

tentatively

adverbus/ˈtent·ət̬·ɪv·li/
We have tentatively agreed to buy that house.

tentative | Business English

tentative
adjective
uk /ˈtentətɪv/us
not certain or agreed:
The car company and the union reached a tentative agreement.
a tentative deal/plan/settlement
The proposals are tentative and subject to bargaining.
said or done in a careful way because you do not know if you are right:
While analysts are tentative at the moment, they remain basically optimistic.
The company began last year to take tentative steps towards a flotation.

tentatively

adverb
They have tentatively agreed to the proposal.

Examples of tentative

tentative
Yet current research supports only the most tentative suggestions concerning the processes that underlie these developmental changes.
When establishing tentative provability, we proceed in exactly the same way as with definite provability, except that we restrict attention to defeasible rules.
The study has demonstrated tentative evidence in support of the hypothesis.
This pilot study provided tentative evidence of alterations in brain energy and phospholipid metabolism in autism that correlate with the neuropsychologic and language deficits.
Clinical symptoms or a positive serology alone made the case definition as tentative.
Second, the testing regime is more ambitious than most, making tentative links between respondents' cognitive abilities, their roles and responsibilities, and their personal characteristics.
Even the first tentative signs of language can be dismissed as mere parroting.
A tentative estimate for the energy of the plasma filling the cavity can be obtained as follows.
Years in italics are radiocarbon dates, as noted later, and therefore only tentative matches to droughts.
Even though each case had its own peculiarities, some tentative observations can be made.
Readers should understand these to be tentative and thus subject to significant modifications based on future field and laboratory research.
Averroes nowhere addresses this question, and any tentative to answer it must remain strictly conjectural.
Note, again, that the results from that analysis were merely tentative due to lack of a statistically significant amount of data.
Additionally, we used 5 different statistical models to obtain tentative parameter point estimates.
While this attitude was challenged and overturned by subsequent academic re-evaluation, steps towards mainstream recognition of the poverty of initial criticism were only tentative.
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