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
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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
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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
In the midst of the government's argument, he found it: "Their representations would be fraught with dubiety."
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
That is the ultimate decision;—arrived at through a welter of dubieties, counterpoisings and perilous considerations, which we now take no account of.
From History of Friedrich II of Prussia — Volume 12 by Thomas Carlyle
Hence their liveliness and certainty, greater than men can reach who are concerned with the dubieties and changes of incomplete things.
From Letters from America by Rupert Brooke
Let us not keep on forever with our fancies and illusions, with our analysing and interpreting and circulating of complex dubieties.
From Selections from the Writings of ‘Abdu’l-Bahá by `Abdu'l-Bahá
She returned, And saw at last dubieties no more, The answering light for her within my eyes.”
From Domesday Book by Edgar Lee Masters
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
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