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Incertitude

noun
1.
The state of being unsure of something.  Synonyms: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, uncertainty.





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"Incertitude" Quotes from Famous Books



... ten o'clock Nejdanov gave Kolia his first lesson before Valentina Mihailovna, who had asked him if she might be present, and sat very quietly the whole time. Kolia proved an intelligent boy; after the inevitable moments of incertitude and discomfort, the lesson went off very well, and Valentina Mihailovna was evidently satisfied with Nejdanov, and spoke to him several times kindly. He tried to hold aloof a little—but not too much so. Valentina Mihailovna was also present ...
— Virgin Soil • Ivan S. Turgenev
... In 1766, M. Duchesne informed the world of the generosity of "M. Monti, Docteur de Philosophie et de Medecine a Boulogne en Italie," who divided with him a dried specimen taken from his own herbarium, "Ce present pretieux m'ote toute incertitude sur la nature de ce Fraisier et sur ses caracteres monstrueux. Il paroit ne ...
— Vegetable Teratology - An Account of the Principal Deviations from the Usual Construction of Plants • Maxwell T. Masters
... sympathy I Let me read it at least in your eyes, if your lips are too austere to utter it. I have come to-day with the firm determination to receive at your hands my bliss or my doom. The torment of this incertitude kills me. Fanny, tell me, do ...
— LOUISA OF PRUSSIA AND HER TIMES • Louise Muhlbach
... bringing forth its own generals, its heroes, its solvers of great problems. Thus there came now to these persons assembled, deadlocked, unguided, unhappy, who might else have sat forever rooted to this spot, the man who was to save them, to lead them forth out of their wilderness of incertitude. ...
— The Girl at the Halfway House • Emerson Hough


Words linked to "Incertitude" :   irresolution, suspense, cognitive state, dubiousness, skepticism, indecisiveness, doubtfulness, mental reservation, uncertainty, misgiving, reservation, distrust, arriere pensee, peradventure, incredulity, disbelief, state of mind, suspicion, mistrust, mental rejection, certainty, dubiety, indecision, doubt


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