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incertitude
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun incertitude has 1 sense
- incertitude(n = noun.cognition) doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, uncertainty - the state of being unsure of something; Array is a kind of cognitive state, state of mind
has particulars: arriere pensee, mental reservation, reservation, distrust, misgiving, mistrust, suspicion, disbelief, incredulity, mental rejection, skepticism, indecision, indecisiveness, irresolution, peradventure, suspense
CIDE DICTIONARY
incertitude, n. [Cf. F. incertitude, LL. incertitudo, fr. L. incertus. See Incertain.].
Uncertainty; doubtfulness; doubt. [1913 Webster]
"The incertitude and instability of this life."
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"He fails . . . from mere incertitude or irresolution."
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OXFORD DICTIONARY
incertitude, n. uncertainty, doubt.
Etymology
F incertitude or LL incertitudo (as IN-(1), CERTITUDE)
THESAURUS
incertitude
capriciousness, chance, chanciness, changeableness, erraticism, erraticness, fickleness, hesitancy, hesitation, incalculability, indecision, indecisiveness, indemonstrability, indeterminacy, indetermination, indeterminism, irresolution, luck, randomness, suspense, suspensefulness, unaccountability, uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty principle, undecidedness, undeterminedness, unforeseeableness, unpredictability, unprovability, unsureness, unverifiability, vacillation, whimsicalityROGET THESAURUS
incertitude
Uncertainty
N uncertainty, incertitude, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubitation, dubitancy, dubitousness, hesitation, suspense, perplexity, embarrassment, dilemma, bewilderment, timidity, vacillation, diaporesis, indetermination, vagueness, haze, fog, obscurity, ambiguity, contingency, dependence, dependency, double contingency, possibility upon a possibility, open question, onus probandi, blind bargain, pig in a poke, leap in the dark, something or other, needle in a haystack, needle in a bottle of hay, roving commission, precariousness, fallibility, uncertain, casual, random, changeable, doubtful, dubious, indecisive, unsettled, undecided, undetermined, in suspense, open to discussion, controvertible, in question, vague, indeterminate, indefinite, ambiguous, equivocal, undefined, undefinable, confused, mystic, oracular, dazed, perplexing, enigmatic, paradoxical, apocryphal, problematical, hypothetical, experimental, unpredictable, unforeseeable (unknowable), fallible, questionable, precarious, slippery, ticklish, debatable, disputable, unreliable, untrustworthy, contingent, contingent on, dependent on, subject to, dependent on circumstances, occasional, provisional, unauthentic, unauthenticated, unauthoritative, unascertained, unconfirmed, undemonstrated, untold, uncounted, in a state of uncertainty, in a cloud, in a maze, bushed, off the track, ignorant, afraid to say, out of one's reckoning, astray, adrift, at sea, at fault, at a loss, at one's wit's end, at a nonplus, puzzled, lost, abroad, d_esorient_e, distracted, distraught, pendente lite, sub spe rati, Heaven knows, who can tell? who shall decide when doctors disagr.
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