dubiety
Americannoun
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dubieties
plural
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doubtfulness; doubt.
- Synonyms:
- suspicion, distrust, mistrust, skepticism
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a matter of doubt.
noun
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the state of being doubtful
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a doubtful matter
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of dubiety
First recorded in 1740–50; from Latin dubietās, equivalent to dubi(us) “doubtful” + -etās, noun suffix, variant of -itās after vocalic stems; see dubious, -ity
Example Sentences
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Two radiologists are required to read every mammogram, and patients are called back in for further tests where there is any dubiety - but still, 20% of cancers are missed.
From BBC ● Mar. 20, 2026
Perhaps we have always lived in ages of dubiety, but Beckett’s quote is particularly apt in describing the last 60 years.
From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2022
Mencken1951 and the author of the U.S. attorney's filing both favored unusual words, including "dubiety" and "redoubt."
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 10, 2014
But once you get past that, Healey has a good deal to say about rural hardship and both the ethical dubiety and therapeutic potential of turning other people's lived experience into art.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 25, 2012
She gave me a look of some dubiety.
From "A Walk in the Woods" by Bill Bryson
To proceed on any other assumption would not only be to ignore the all-powerful first-night audience, but to plunge into a veritable morass of inconsistencies, dubieties and slovenlinesses.
From Play-Making A Manual of Craftsmanship by William Archer
Ferdinand is in a strongish, but yet a dangerous position; and will give difficulties, and does give endless dubieties, to these high-plumed gentlemen galloping about with their spy-glasses for eight days.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 20 by Thomas Carlyle
Sterling's dubieties as to continuing at Bordeaux were quickly decided.
From Life of John Sterling by Thomas Carlyle
For is there not here another heroine—cause of the dubieties of the Doctor Fidelis as above cited?
From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by George Saintsbury
She returned, And saw at last dubieties no more, The answering light for her within my eyes.”
From Domesday Book by Edgar Lee Masters
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