uncertainty
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uncertainty |
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Pyrrhonism, accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, agitation, ambiguity, ambiguousness, ambitendency, ambivalence, amphibology, anxiety, apprehension, arrhythmia, bleariness, blur, blurriness,
bother, break, brokenness,
calculated risk, capriciousness, casualness, chance, chanciness, change of mind, changeableness, choppiness, cliff-hanging, complexity of
meaning, concern, criticalness, darkness, defocus, delicacy, destiny, desultoriness, deviability, diffidence, dimness, disconnectedness, discontinuity, disquiet, distress, distrust, distrustfulness, double-mindedness, double entendre, double meaning, double reference, doubt, doubtfulness, dread, dubiety, dubiousness, eccentricity, equivocacy, equivocality, equivocalness, erraticism, erraticness, expectant waiting, faintness, fate, feebleness, fence-sitting, fence-straddling, fibrillation, fickleness, filminess, fitfulness, fits and starts, flier, flightiness, fluctuation, flukiness, fogginess,
fortuitousness, fortuity, fortune,
freakishness, fuzziness, gamble, good fortune, good luck, half-belief, half-visibility, hap, happenstance, happy chance, hazard, hazardousness, haziness, heedless hap, hesitation, how they
fall, impulsiveness, incertitude, inconsistency, inconstancy, indecision,
indecisiveness, indefiniteness, indeterminacy,
indeterminateness, indistinctness, indistinguishability, infirmity of purpose, insecurity, instability, intermittence, irony, irregularity, irresolution, jerkiness, law of averages, leeriness, levels of meaning, lot, low profile, luck, mercuriality, misdoubt, misgiving, mistiness, mistrust, mistrustfulness, moira,
moodiness, mugwumpery, mugwumpism,
multivocality, opportunity, paleness,
paronomasia, patchiness, perilousness, perturbation, pessimism, play, plunge, polysemousness, polysemy, precariousness, principle of indeterminacy, probability, problematicness, punning, query, question, random sample, reserve, restlessness, richness of meaning, risk,
riskiness, roughness, run of luck,
salt, scruple, scrupulousness,
second thoughts, self-doubt, semivisibility, serendipity, shadow of doubt, shadowiness,
shakiness, shiftiness, skepticalness, skepticism, slipperiness, soft focus, spasticity, speculation, sporadicity, sporadicness, spottiness, stagger, statistical probability, suspense, suspicion, suspiciousness, sword of Damocles, tergiversation, the breaks, theory of probability, ticklish business, ticklishness, total skepticism,
totteriness, touchiness, trouble, uncertainty principle, unclearness, undecidedness, undependability,
undeterminedness, uneasiness, unevenness, unfixedness, unhealthiness, unmethodicalness,
unplainness, unpredictability, unreliability, unsafeness, unsettledness, unsettlement, unsoundness,
unstableness, unsteadfastness, unsteadiness, unsureness, unsystematicness, untrustworthiness, vague appearance, vagueness, variability, variation, variety, venture, waiting, wantonness, wariness, waywardness, weakness, whatever comes, whimsicality,
wobble, wonder, worry
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Main entries similar to: uncertainty
ambiguity, ambivalence, anxiety, apprehension, blur,
break, breaks, chance, change of mind, cliff-hanging,
darkness, delicacy, destiny, diffidence, dilemma, dimness, discontinuity, distrust, double entendre, double meaning,
doubt, dread, eccentricity, fate, fibrillation, fits and starts, flier, flip of a coin, fluctuation, flyer, fortuity, fortune, gamble, good luck, hap, happenstance, hazard, haziness, hesitation, impulsiveness,
incertitude, inconsistency, inconstancy, indecision, indecisiveness,
insecurity, instability, intermittence, irony, irregularity, irresolution, jeopardy, law of averages, lot, low profile, luck, misgiving, mistrust, moodiness, mugwumpery, nonuniformity, obscurity, opportunity, paleness, peril, pessimism, play, plunge, probability, qualm, quandary, query, question, random sample, randomness,
restlessness, risk, riskiness, roughness, scruple, second thoughts, self-doubt, serendipity, skepticism, speculation, stagger, suspense, suspicion, sword of Damocles, unbelief,
unevenness, unreliability, vacillation, vagueness, variability,
variation, variety, venture, waiting, weakness, wobble, worry
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