incertainty

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noun

Uncertainty.

OriginOld French incertaineté →
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Meanings

nounincertainty (countable and uncountable, plural incertainties)

plural incertainties

  1. countableobsoleteuncountableUncertainty.

    all is naught, full of imposture, incertainty, and doth generally more harm then good.

    1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC, partition 2, section 4, member 1, subsection 1

Origin

  1. Old Frenchincertaineté
  2. Englishincertainty

From Old French incertaineté.

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APA

incertainty. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incertainty

MLA

“incertainty.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incertainty. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “incertainty,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incertainty.

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