Uncertainty
[ʌn'sɜːt(ə)ntɪ;-tɪntɪ] or [ʌn'sɝtnti]
Definition
(noun.) being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance; 'the uncertainty of the outcome'; 'the precariousness of his income'.
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Definition
(n.) The quality or state of being uncertain.
(n.) That which is uncertain; something unknown.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Ambiguity, doubt, obscurity, vagueness, dubiousness, incertitude, doubtfulness.[2]. Contingency.[3]. Irregularity, variableness, changeableness, capriciousness.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CERTAIN]
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Examples
- In all the different employments of stock, the ordinary rate of profit varies more or less with the certainty or uncertainty of the returns. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- Great is the uncertainty of life! Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- Uncertainty has the same influence as opposition. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
- The chill of Mrs. Fairfax's warnings, and the damp of her doubts were upon me: something of unsubstantiality and uncertainty had beset my hopes. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Isaac gasped with terror and uncertainty. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
- To be justified in your eyes, he must do it in the most complete uncertainty of any provision. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- Nevertheless, in her new humiliating uncertainty she dared do nothing but comply. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- If his progress downward had been attended with difficulties and uncertainty, his journey back was infinitely more perplexing. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I am inclined to believe, from my uncertainty on this head, that it was six at first and seven afterwards. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- I feel somewhat anxious to know, being a little tormented with uncertainty as to how I stand with her. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- However, we have discovered that there WAS a predisposing influence against you--and there is one uncertainty cleared out of our way, at any rate. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- Her uncertainty lasted but a moment; she hurried back, and tapped at his door, and softly called to him. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Good casts were often thus procured, but the uncertainty of the process, arising from the frequent fusion of the lead matrices, caused it to be discontinued. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- Mrs. Yeobright was in this state of uncertainty when she was informed one morning that her son's wife was visiting her grandfather at Mistover. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- I don't say that he is not an honourable man, out of all this complication and uncertainty; I am sure he is. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- He felt himself flung back on all the ugly uncertainties from which he thought he had cast loose forever. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- If there are genuine uncertainties in life, philosophies must reflect that uncertainty. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Sprague, who also gives a curious glimpse of the glorious uncertainties and vicissitudes of that formative period. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- My uncertainties ended in my taking a way that may make you laugh. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- But, patience, patience--this uncertainty, and many uncertainties more, cannot last much longer. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- No, I have one hundred, said Bulstrode, feeling the immediate riddance too great a relief to be rejected on the ground of future uncertainties. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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