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Uncertainty   /ənsˈərtənti/   Listen
Uncertainty

noun
(pl. uncertainties)
1.
Being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance.  Synonyms: precariousness, uncertainness.  "The precariousness of his income"
2.
The state of being unsure of something.  Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude.



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"Uncertainty" Quotes from Famous Books



... Hampstead,* she promises to give her the particulars of her flight at leisure. She had indeed thoughts of continuing her account of every thing that had passed between her and Mr. Lovelace since her last narrative letter. But the uncertainty she was in from that time, with the execrable treatment she met with on her being deluded back again, followed by a week's delirium, had hitherto hindered her from prosecuting her intention. But, nevertheless, having it still in her view to perform her promise as soon as she ...
— Clarissa, Volume 6 (of 9) - The History Of A Young Lady • Samuel Richardson

... Just at this moment of apparent uncertainty, a slight tap was heard on the ground-glass eye above us that threw a sullen and unwilling light upon the scene of our interview. It ...
— Sea and Shore - A Sequel to "Miriam's Memoirs" • Mrs. Catharine A. Warfield

... the matter, I was content; further knowledge would, however, incline me to think, and occasionally to decide, that the idea I had formed was incorrect, and I would alter it. Thus did I flounder about in a sea of uncertainty, ...
— The Little Savage • Captain Frederick Marryat

... by dint of hard study, to make up the many deficiencies in his education. He taught himself Latin, French, and Italian, besides working at botany, chemistry, and the dispensing of medicines. It was during these seven years of uncertainty and experiment that William read Washington Irving's Sketches of Geoffrey Crayon, which produced a strong impression on his mind. With the inspiration of this book hot upon him, he made a tour on foot through the Peak ...
— Little Memoirs of the Nineteenth Century • George Paston

... Anxiety and trembling uncertainty now gave way to an overwhelming alarm. Hurriedly were her children put to bed, and then she went out to seek for him, she knew not whither. To the store in which he had become a partner, she first ...
— The Lights and Shadows of Real Life • T.S. Arthur


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