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unsureness

  • a word derived from sure.
    sure
    adjective
    free from doubt as to the reliability, character, action, etc., of something.

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She reveals unsureness about Behn, who may have been the first woman to earn a living through her plays but did so by becoming, essentially, one of the boys.

From Washington Post Jan. 5, 2023

That sense of unsureness the players felt disappeared.

From Seattle Times Dec. 29, 2021

Again, the unsureness is in whether Paul wants to continue building Team 10 into a superstar team.

From The Verge May 9, 2018

By the time she landed her Bafta-nominated role as a sullen, misunderstood high schooler in American Beauty, she could evince vulnerability without the notes of unsureness that typically stick to young actors.

From The Guardian Jan. 25, 2018

Very unsure of him we may be: how should we be sure of what we do not yet know? but the unsureness does not nullify the approach.

From There & Back by George MacDonald