Meanings
plural dubieties
- uncountableDoubtfulness.
Graham fell in with the scheme without a murmur of dubiety or dissent.
1906, David Graham Phillips, chapter 18, in The Fortune Hunter - countableA particular instance of doubt or uncertainty.
Sterling's dubieties as to continuing at Bordeaux were quickly decided.
1851, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 4, in The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC1 more example
And yet these grim old walls are not a dilettantism and dubiety; they are an earnest fact. It was a most real and serious purpose they were built for!
1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 2, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)
Synonyms & antonyms
nounthe state of being unsure of something
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Late Latindubietās
- Late Latindubietās
- Englishdubiety
Borrowed from Late Latin dubietās.
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Finnish epäilys
- epäilysinstance of doubt
Cite this entry
dubiety. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/dubiety
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