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uncertainty

noun

1 uncertainty

Being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance:
— The uncertainty of the outcome.

synonyms: precariousness, uncertainness.

Roget 621: chance etc. 156; lot, fate etc. (necessity) 601; luck; good luck etc. (good) 618; ... show more

Roget 605: irresolution, infirmity of purpose, indecision; indetermination, undetermination; unsettlement; uncertainty etc. 475; demur, suspense; hesitating etc. v., ... show more

Roget 519: unintelligibility; incomprehensibility, imperspicuity; inconceivableness, vagueness etc. adj.; obscurity; ambiguity etc. 520; doubtful meaning; uncertainty etc. ... show more

Roget 465a: indiscrimination, indistinguishability; indistinctness, indistinction; uncertainty etc. (doubt) 475; incomparability etc. 464.1.

Roget 139: irregularity, uncertainty, unpunctuality; fitfulness etc. adj.; capriciousness, ecrhythmus.   

Dutch: onzekerheid, twijfel

2 uncertainty

The state of being unsure of something.

synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude.

Roget 475: uncertainty, incertitude, doubt; doubtfulness etc. adj.; dubiety, dubitation, dubitancy, dubitousness.    hesitation, suspense; perplexity, embarrassment, ... show more

Dutch: aarzeling, onzekerheid, twijfel, weifeling
Polish: obiekcja, wątpliwość, zastrzeżenie


Moby thesaurus: Pyrrhonism, accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, agitation, ambiguity, ambiguousness, ambitendency, ambivalence, amphibology, anxiety, apprehension, arrhythmia, bleariness, blur, blurriness, bother, break, brokenness, calculated risk ... show more.

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