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UNCERTAINNESS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance
Example:
the precariousness of his income
Synonyms:
precariousness; uncertainness; uncertainty
Classified under:
Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects
Hypernyms ("uncertainness" is a kind of...):
quality (an essential and distinguishing attribute of something or someone)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "uncertainness"):
doubt; doubtfulness; dubiousness; question (uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something)
indefiniteness; indefinity; indeterminacy; indeterminateness; indetermination (the quality of being vague and poorly defined)
unpredictability (lacking predictability)
improbability; improbableness (the quality of being improbable)
fortuitousness (the quality of happening accidentally and by lucky chance)
speculativeness (the quality of being a conclusion or opinion based on supposition and conjecture rather than on fact or investigation)
Derivation:
uncertain (not established beyond doubt; still undecided or unknown)
uncertain (lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance)
uncertain (not certain to occur; not inevitable)
uncertain (not consistent or dependable)
uncertain (not established or confirmed)
