incertitude

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: in=cer=ti=tude

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."  [1913 Webster]
"He fails . . . from mere incertitude or irresolution."  [1913 Webster]

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, whimsicality

ROGET 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.