'Uncertainty' definitions:
Definition of 'uncertainty'
(from WordNet)
noun
Being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance; "the uncertainty of the outcome"; "the precariousness of his income" [syn: uncertainty, uncertainness, precariousness] [ant: certainty, foregone conclusion, sure thing]
noun
The state of being unsure of something [syn: doubt, uncertainty, incertitude, dubiety, doubtfulness, dubiousness] [ant: certainty]
Definition of 'Uncertainty'
From: GCIDE
- Uncertainty \Un*cer"tain*ty\, n.; pl. Uncertainties. [1913 Webster]
- 1. The quality or state of being uncertain. [1913 Webster]
- 2. That which is uncertain; something unknown. [1913 Webster]
- Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty. --L'Estrange. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'uncertainty'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accidentality,
- actuarial calculation,
- adventitiousness,
- agitation,
- ambiguity,
- ambiguousness,
- ambitendency,
- ambivalence,
- amphibology,
- anxiety,
- apprehension,
- arrhythmia,
- bleariness,
- blur,
- blurriness,
- bother,
- break,
- brokenness,
- calculated risk,
- capriciousness,
- casualness,
- chance,
- chanciness,
- change of mind,
- changeableness,
- choppiness,
- cliff-hanging,
- complexity of meaning,
- concern,
- criticalness,
- darkness,
- defocus,
- delicacy,
- destiny,
- desultoriness,
- deviability,
- diffidence,
- dimness,
- disconnectedness,
- discontinuity,
- disquiet,
- distress,
- distrust,
- distrustfulness,
- double entendre,
- double meaning,
- double reference,
- double-mindedness,
- doubt,
- doubtfulness,
- dread,
- dubiety,
- dubiousness,
- eccentricity,
- equivocacy,
- equivocality,
- equivocalness,
- erraticism,
- erraticness,
- expectant waiting,
- faintness,
- fate,
- feebleness,
- fence-sitting,
- fence-straddling,
- fibrillation,
- fickleness,
- filminess,
- fitfulness,
- fits and starts,
- flier,
- flightiness,
- fluctuation,
- flukiness,
- fogginess,
- fortuitousness,
- fortuity,
- fortune,
- freakishness,
- fuzziness,
- gamble,
- good fortune,
- good luck,
- half-belief,
- half-visibility,
- hap,
- happenstance,
- happy chance,
- hazard,
- hazardousness,
- haziness,
- heedless hap,
- hesitation,
- how they fall,
- impulsiveness,
- incertitude,
- inconsistency,
- inconstancy,
- indecision,
- indecisiveness,
- indefiniteness,
- indeterminacy,
- indeterminateness,
- indistinctness,
- indistinguishability,
- infirmity of purpose,
- insecurity,
- instability,
- intermittence,
- irony,
- irregularity,
- irresolution,
- jerkiness,
- law of averages,
- leeriness,
- levels of meaning,
- lot,
- low profile,
- luck,
- mercuriality,
- misdoubt,
- misgiving,
- mistiness,
- mistrust,
- mistrustfulness,
- moira,
- moodiness,
- mugwumpery,
- mugwumpism,
- multivocality,
- opportunity,
- paleness,
- paronomasia,
- patchiness,
- perilousness,
- perturbation,
- pessimism,
- play,
- plunge,
- polysemousness,
- polysemy,
- precariousness,
- principle of indeterminacy,
- probability,
- problematicness,
- punning,
- Pyrrhonism,
- query,
- question,
- random sample,
- reserve,
- restlessness,
- richness of meaning,
- risk,
- riskiness,
- roughness,
- run of luck,
- salt,
- scruple,
- scrupulousness,
- second thoughts,
- self-doubt,
- semivisibility,
- serendipity,
- shadow of doubt,
- shadowiness,
- shakiness,
- shiftiness,
- skepticalness,
- skepticism,
- slipperiness,
- soft focus,
- spasticity,
- speculation,
- sporadicity,
- sporadicness,
- spottiness,
- stagger,
- statistical probability,
- suspense,
- suspicion,
- suspiciousness,
- sword of Damocles,
- tergiversation,
- the breaks,
- theory of probability,
- ticklish business,
- ticklishness,
- total skepticism,
- totteriness,
- touchiness,
- trouble,
- uncertainty principle,
- unclearness,
- undecidedness,
- undependability,
- undeterminedness,
- uneasiness,
- unevenness,
- unfixedness,
- unhealthiness,
- unmethodicalness,
- unplainness,
- unpredictability,
- unreliability,
- unsafeness,
- unsettledness,
- unsettlement,
- unsoundness,
- unstableness,
- unsteadfastness,
- unsteadiness,
- unsureness,
- unsystematicness,
- untrustworthiness,
- vague appearance,
- vagueness,
- variability,
- variation,
- variety,
- venture,
- waiting,
- wantonness,
- wariness,
- waywardness,
- weakness,
- whatever comes,
- whimsicality,
- wobble,
- wonder,
- worry