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noun

Uncertainty n. (pl. uncertainties)

The quality or state of being uncertain.

That which is uncertain; something unknown. "Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty."

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Etymology of 'Uncertainty'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Uncertainty" Quotes from Famous Books

... or so Regnar arose, holding his head with both hands, and an evident feeling of uncertainty ...

— Adrift in the Ice-Fields • Charles W. Hall

... will be necessary to fulfill its duties, applied to another object, would at the end of two years have left me in the possession of a profession which I might have exercised either in Philadelphia or New York. But our plans are all liable to uncertainty, and I must now cheerfully undertake that which had never been the object of my ...

— Albert Gallatin - American Statesmen Series, Vol. XIII • John Austin Stevens

... her shoulders fearfully to where Dunder stood by the roadside, regarding Ben with a look of uncertainty. He still thought that perhaps this was a new game. Not a game that he cared for, but still one to be played if his master fancied it. Ben stooped, picked up a stone, and threw it at Dunder, striking him in the flank. "Go on home!" he commanded, sternly. "Go ...

— Half Portions • Edna Ferber

... things, it necessarily follows they cannot all be true copies of them: or, if some are and others are not, it is impossible to distinguish the former from the latter. And this plunges us yet deeper in uncertainty. Again, when we consider the point, we cannot conceive how any idea, or anything like an idea, should have an absolute existence out of a mind: nor consequently, according to you, how there should be any real thing in nature. The result of all which is ...

— Three Dialogues between Hylas and Philonous in Opposition to Sceptics and Atheists • George Berkeley

... his liver. But R. Mathia Ben Charash said, "it is allowed"; and again said R. Mathia Ben Charash, "to him who had throat complaint they administered medicine in his mouth on the Sabbath day, since there is uncertainty of life, and all uncertainty of life ...

— Hebrew Literature

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