What does Uncertainty mean?
Definitions for Uncertainty
ʌnˈsɜr tn tiun·cer·tain·ty
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Princeton's WordNet
uncertainty, uncertainness, precariousnessnoun
being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance
"the uncertainty of the outcome"; "the precariousness of his income"
doubt, uncertainty, incertitude, dubiety, doubtfulness, dubiousnessnoun
the state of being unsure of something
Wiktionary
uncertaintynoun
doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction.
uncertaintynoun
Something uncertain or ambiguous.
uncertaintynoun
A parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Uncertaintynoun
All great concernments must delays endure;
Rashness and haste make all things unsecure;
And if uncertain thy pretensions be,
Stay till fit time wear out uncertainty. John Denham.You common cry of curs, whose breath I hate,
Here then remain with your uncertainty;
Let ev’ry feeble rumour shake your hearts. William Shakespeare.That which makes doubtfulness and uncertainty in the signification of some, more than other words, is the difference of ideas they stand for. John Locke.
God’s omniscience is a light shining into every dark corner, stedfastly grasping the greatest and most slippery uncertainties. Robert South, Sermons.
Our shepherd’s case is every man’s case, that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty, and leaps from the honest business he was brought up to, into a trade he has no skill in. Roger L'Estrange.
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uncertainty
Uncertainty refers to the state of being uncertain or unsure, lacking complete certainty or absolute knowledge about something. This mainly occurs due to the lack of information, predictability, or clarity, leading to ambiguity or potential outcomes being unpredictable or unknown. In various fields such as physics, economics, statistics, and philosophy, uncertainty has specific interpretations but generally, it conveys similar notions of doubt, variability, and risk.
Webster Dictionary
Uncertaintynoun
the quality or state of being uncertain
Uncertaintynoun
that which is uncertain; something unknown
Wikidata
Uncertainty
Uncertainty is a term used in subtly different ways in a number of fields, including physics, philosophy, statistics, economics, finance, insurance, psychology, sociology, engineering, and information science. It applies to predictions of future events, to physical measurements that are already made, or to the unknown.
U.S. National Library of Medicine
Uncertainty
The condition in which reasonable knowledge regarding risks, benefits, or the future is not available.
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Rank popularity for the word 'Uncertainty' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4149
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Rank popularity for the word 'Uncertainty' in Nouns Frequency: #1514
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Uncertainty in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Uncertainty in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
Examples of Uncertainty in a Sentence
Access to mental health care is especially important during this trying time filled with grief and uncertainty for so many people.
The overlying question is the uncertainty over the coronavirus and whether it's going to spread further and impact global economic activity before things stabilize and ultimately get better.
The main risk here is execution on their expansion plan which is significant as well as uncertainty around government regulation for the sector.
There is about to be an awful lot more data and observations on asteroids, we're preparing for this flood of data. Together with our partners, we are working to understand how well we are going to be able to determine if an asteroid is going to hit the Earth. More observations means less uncertainty.
Much more will be needed, because as we can see, given the mutating virus, that this is not a problem that’s going away anytime soon, there is still a tremendous amount of uncertainty.
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