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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Uncertainty

/ən-sẽrt'-ən-tē/ · Un·cer·tain·ty · IPA /ʌnˈsɝtənti/
01 n. The quality or state of being uncertain.
pl. Uncertainties
  1. 1.
    The quality or state of being uncertain.
  2. 2.
    That which is uncertain; something unknown.
    “Our shepherd's case is every man's case that quits a moral certainty for an uncertainty.” L'Estrange.