noun
- Being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance.
- usage: "the uncertainty of the outcome"; "the precariousness of his income"
- synonyms: uncertainness, precariousness
- The state of being unsure of something.
- synonyms: doubt, incertitude, dubiety, doubtfulness, dubiousness
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