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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

... French crowns in the world; Franks has not a sol; and the Fitzhughs cannot get their tobacco money. Every day of my life," he continues, "is a day of expectation, and, consequently, a day of disappointment; whether I shall have a morsel of bread to eat at the end of two months, is as much an uncertainty as it was fourteen months ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, - Vol. 12, Issue 328, August 23, 1828 • Various

... into the office where Franklin sat on Christmas eve, listening to the clinking rattle of the hard snow on the pane. Sam was white from head to foot. His face was anxious, his habitual uncertainty and diffidence were gone. ...

— The Girl at the Halfway House • Emerson Hough

... in some quarters "specialised education" has been demanded for young boys, it is equally true that many youths pass through school and enter the university without any clear idea of whither they are tending. This uncertainty may be due to a belief that "something is sure to turn up," to the magnitude of their allowances and the ease of their circumstances, occasionally, perhaps, to excessive timidity or underestimation of their powers; but, from whatever cause it ...

— Cambridge Essays on Education • Various

... after sunset. The same spectacle may also be witnessed before sunrise in the autumn, and it would seem as if the material producing the zodiacal light, whatever it may be, had a lens-shaped form with the sun in the centre. The nature of this object is still a matter of uncertainty, but it is probably composed of a kind of dust, as the faint spectrum it affords is of a continuous type. A view of the zodiacal light ...

— The Story of the Heavens • Robert Stawell Ball

... of uncertainty was impossible for a woman of Edna's organization. At any hour Captain Horn might appear. How should she receive him? What had she to ...

— The Adventures of Captain Horn • Frank Richard Stockton

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