Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state or character of being uncertain.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance

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Examples

  • We are not born American, we become American, and this creates a sort of uncertainness, a sort of fragility.

    America in Foreign Eyes 2005

  • We are not born American, we become American, and this creates a sort of uncertainness, a sort of fragility.

    America in Foreign Eyes 2005

  • "Moments of uncertainness and mistrust between ourselves have been put behind us," said President dos Santos, who has been in power since 1979.

    ANC Daily News Briefing 2007

  • We are not born American, we become American, and this creates a sort of uncertainness, a sort of fragility.

    America in Foreign Eyes 2005

  • And odd whiles the sounds to be as of great monsters; and the earth to shake under us; and other-whiles there to be a hush and only the steam about us, and somewhere in the distance and uncertainness a low piping of some steam cranny, very strange and lonesome-sounding.

    The Night Land 2007

  • Something very, very good, uncertainness and possibilities.

    Number 6 Fumbles Rachel Solar-Tuttle 2002

  • And odd whiles the sounds to be as of great monsters; and the earth to shake under us; and other-whiles there to be a hush and only the steam about us, and somewhere in the distance and uncertainness a low piping of some steam cranny, very strange and lonesome-sounding.

    The Night Land: Chapter 13 1912

  • As he stood there in anxious uncertainness he heard a low voice among the bushes.

    The Wouldbegoods Edith 1901

  • As he stood there in anxious uncertainness he heard a low voice among the bushes.

    The Wouldbegoods 1891

  • Class engine survive No. 6023 Edward II which has nearly finished its restoration at Didcot it is at 1.59 & what I think is its boiler at 2.13 in the photos video, this uncertainness it due to there being several boilers and boilerless locos in the workshop and No. 6000 George V which is currently visiting the NRM from the GWR museum in swindon who got BR 9F No. 92220

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