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Webster 1913 Edition
Uncertainty
Un-cer′tain-ty
,Noun.
pl.
Uncertainties
. 1.
The quality or state of being uncertain.
2.
That which is uncertain; something unknown.
Our shepherd’s case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an
uncertainty
. L'Estrange.
Webster 1828 Edition
Uncertainty
UNCER'TAINTY
, n.1.
doubtfulness; dubiousness. The truth is not ascertained; the latest accounts have not removed the uncertainty.2.
Want of certainty; want of precision; as the uncertainty of the signification of words.3.
Contingency.Steadfastly grasping the greatest and most slippery uncertainties.
4.
Something unknown.Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a certainty for an uncertainty.
Definition 2024
uncertainty
uncertainty
English
Noun
uncertainty (countable and uncountable, plural uncertainties)
- (uncountable) Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction.
- 1898, Winston Churchill, chapter 4, in The Celebrity:
- “Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty, then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.
- 2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1-2 Norwich”, in BBC Sport:
- After spending so much of the season looking upwards, the swashbuckling style and swagger of early season Spurs was replaced by uncertainty and frustration against a Norwich side who had the quality and verve to take advantage
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- (countable) Something uncertain or ambiguous.
- (uncountable, mathematics) A parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values.
Antonyms
Translations
doubt; the condition of being uncertain
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Something uncertain or ambiguous
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(mathematics) A parameter that measures the dispersion
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