uncertainty

uncertainty
n
1. doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, dubiety, skepticism; unsureness, hesitancy, hesitation; caution, wariness, tentativeness; suspicion, suspiciousness, diffidence, misgiving, distrust, mistrust.
2. guess, piece of guesswork; borderline case, touch-and-go situation; contingency; tossup, open question, undecided issue; gamble, risk, leap or shot in the dark, pig in a poke; blind bargain, sight-unseen transaction.
3. unpredictability, unpredictableness, unforeseea-bleness, unaccountability, unaccountableness; randomness, haphazardness, casualness, arbitrariness; chance, fortuity, fortuitousness, happenstance, serendipity, luck, fortune.
4. ambivalence, equivocation, equivocalness, equivocality, equivocacy, fence-sitting, mugwumpery; fluctuation, vacillation, oscillation, shilly-shally; fluctuating, wavering, shilly-shallying, blowing hot and cold.
5. irresolution, irresoluteness, indecision, indecisiveness, undecidedness, unsureness, indetermination, infirmity of purpose; insecurity, unassuredness, lack of confidence; confusion, perplexity, bewilderment, bafflement, puzzlement.
6. indefiniteness, unsettledness; question, questiona-bleness; suspense, state of suspense; theoreticalness, hypotheticalness, problematicalness; speculation, conjecture, assumption, presumption.
7. indistinctness, indeterminateness, indeterminacy; obscurity, vagueness, nebulousness, unclearness, ambiguity, ambiguousness; impenetrability, impenetra-bleness, inscrutableness, inscrutability.
8. inconsistency, variableness, variability, changea-bleness, changeability, mutability; fickleness, capri-ciousness, whimsicality, waywardness, skittishness; inconstancy, unreliability, unreliableness, undependability, untrustworthiness; treacherousness, slipperiness, shiftiness.
9. riskiness, Inf. chanciness, Brit. Inf. diceyness; delicacy, ticklishness, touchiness, Inf. trickiness, Inf. stickiness; dangerousness, hazardousness, perilousness, precariousness, Sl. hairiness; danger, peril; instability, unstableness, unsteadiness, shakiness; unsoundness, unsafeness.
10. irregularity, intermittence, erraticism, sporadicalness, sporadicity, sporadism, unmethodicalness, me-thodlessness, unsystematicalness, systemlessness; fit-fulness, desultoriness, spasmodism.

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