uncertainty

English

Etymology

un- +‎ certainty.

Pronunciation

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Noun

uncertainty (countable and uncountable; plural uncertainties)

1. (uncountable) doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction.
   • 2012 April 9, Mandeep Sanghera, “Tottenham 1 - 2 Norwich”, BBC Sport:

     After spending so much of the season looking upwards, the swashbuckling style and swagger of early season Spurs was replaced by uncertainty and frustration against a Norwich side who had the quality and verve to take advantage

2. (countable) Something uncertain or ambiguous.
3. (uncountable) (mathematics) A parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values.

Antonyms

• certainty

Translations

doubt; the condition of being uncertain

• Czech: nejistota (cs) f
• Danish: usikkerhed (da) c
• Dutch: onzekerheid (nl) f
• Esperanto: necerteco (eo)
• German: Unsicherheit (de) f
• Greek: αβεβαιότητα (el) (avevaiótita) f
• Hungarian: bizonytalanság (hu)

• Polish: niepewność (pl) f
• Romanian: incertitudine (ro), nesiguranță (ro)
• Russian: неуверенность (n'euv'ér'ennost’) f, сомнение (somn'énije) n
• Scottish Gaelic: mì-chinnt (gd) f
• Spanish: incertidumbre (es) f

Something uncertain or ambiguous

• German: Unsicherheit (de) f
• Russian: неуверенность (n'euv'ér'ennost’) f, неясность (n'ejásnist') f, неопределённость (n'eopr'ed'el'ónnost') f

(mathematics) A parameter that measures the dispersion

• Russian: погрешность (pogr'éšnost') f, неточность (n'etóčnost'), неопределённость (n'eopr'ed'el'ónnost') f

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• Dutch: onzekerheid f
• Spanish: incertidumbre f

External links

• Uncertainty on Wikipedia.Wikipedia