Definitions for uncertainty

uncertainty un·cer·tain·ty

Spelling: [uhn-sur-tn-tee]
IPA: /ʌnˈsɜr tn ti/

Uncertainty is a 11 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 19 points.

You can make 700 anagrams from letters in uncertainty (aceinnrttuy).

Definitions for uncertainty

noun

  1. the state of being uncertain; doubt; hesitancy:
  2. an instance of uncertainty, doubt, etc.
  3. unpredictability; indeterminacy; indefiniteness.

Origin of uncertainty

1350-1400; Middle English uncerteynte; see un-1, certainty

Examples for uncertainty

Kundera sees fiction as a realm of many partial truths, its only certainty “the wisdom of uncertainty.”

His Canon camera dangled by his side and the feeling of uncertainty over what he could now report punctuated everything he said.

There was something of uncertainty and remonstrance in her look; something that was not all satisfaction.

But for me, this admittance of uncertainty and doubts grounds Serial in reality.

If the certainty of the wisdom of uncertainty is itself uncertain, the force of the definition crumbles by logical standards.

New York blinks in the face of uncertainty and bans hydraulic fracturing.

This uncertainty led to a most unfortunate precipitation on his part.

The Street came decorously, albeit with a degree of uncertainty as to supper.

The child did not know what to say, but it was not natural to her to remain long in uncertainty.

Then there had been the misery of terrible suspense, a wait of uncertainty.

Word Value for uncertainty
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16

Words with friends

19

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