uncertainty
noun, plural un·cer·tain·ties for 2.
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anxiety, ambivalence, confusion, mistrust, distrust, uneasiness, ambiguity, suspicion, skepticism, trouble, worry, concern, unpredictability, dilemma, oscillation, puzzle, qualm, mystification, conjecture, dubietyExamples from the Web for uncertainty
Contemporary Examples of uncertainty
New York blinks in the face of uncertainty and bans hydraulic fracturing.
But for me, this admittance of uncertainty and doubts grounds Serial in reality.
Adnan Killed Her! No, Jay Did It! Serial’s Uncertain, True-to-Reality EndEmily Shire
December 18, 2014
His Canon camera dangled by his side and the feeling of uncertainty over what he could now report punctuated everything he said.
Kundera sees fiction as a realm of many partial truths, its only certainty “the wisdom of uncertainty.”
If the certainty of the wisdom of uncertainty is itself uncertain, the force of the definition crumbles by logical standards.
Historical Examples of uncertainty
The Street came decorously, albeit with a degree of uncertainty as to supper.
KMary Roberts Rinehart
The child did not know what to say, but it was not natural to her to remain long in uncertainty.
Rico and WiseliJohanna Spyri
Then there had been the misery of terrible suspense, a wait of uncertainty.
ThoroughbredsW. A. Fraser
This uncertainty led to a most unfortunate precipitation on his part.
Hetty's Strange HistoryAnonymous
There was something of uncertainty and remonstrance in her look; something that was not all satisfaction.
Little DorritCharles Dickens