"uncertainty" in the noun sense
1. uncertainty, uncertainness, precariousness
being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance
"the uncertainty of the outcome"
"the precariousness of his income"
2. doubt, uncertainty, incertitude, dubiety, doubtfulness, dubiousness
the state of being unsure of something
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