uncertainty or equivocalness
1uncertainty — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. incertitude, doubt. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [The mental state of being uncertain] Syn. perplexity, doubt, dubiety, dubiosity, skepticism, puzzlement, quandary, mystification, guesswork, conjecture,… …
2uncertainty — Synonyms and related words: Pyrrhonism, accidentality, actuarial calculation, adventitiousness, agitation, ambiguity, ambiguousness, ambitendency, ambivalence, amphibology, anxiety, apprehension, arrhythmia, bleariness, blur, blurriness, bother,… …
3equivocalness — (Roget s Thesaurus II) noun The quality or state of being ambiguous: ambiguity, ambiguousness, cloudiness, indefi niteness, nebulousness, obscureness, obscurity, uncertainty, unclearness, vagueness. See CLEAR …
4equivocalness — e quiv·o·cal·ness || nɪs n. tendency to be ambiguous (especially with intent to deceive); ambiguousness, state of having two or more possible meanings; questionableness, doubtfulness; uncertainty, state of being undecided …
5uncertainty — n 1. doubt, doubtfulness, dubiousness, dubiety, skepticism; unsureness, hesitancy, hesitation; caution, wariness, tentativeness; suspicion, suspiciousness, diffidence, misgiving, distrust, mistrust. 2. guess, piece of guesswork; borderline case,… …
6ambiguity — n. 1. Doubtfulness, dubiousness, doubt, uncertainty or equivocalness (as respects the meaning of a term), indefiniteness, vagueness, obscurity, amphiboly. 2. Ambiguous, expression, double meaning, equivoke (or equivoque), double entendre …
7ambiguity — I noun abstruseness, ambiguitas, bafflement, bewilderment, confounded meaning, confused meaning, confusion, disconcertion, doubtful meaning, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, duplexity in meaning, equivocalness, equivocation, incertitude,… …
8qualm — I noun anxiety, apprehension, apprehensiveness, compunction, concern, diffidence, disquiet, distrust, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, equivocalness, feeling of uncertainty, foreboding, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude,… …
9obscurity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Shade Nouns 1. obscurity, dimness, darkness, obscuration, obfuscation, opacity; whiteout; shade, cloud, gloom, duskiness, etc. See concealment, invisibility, cloudiness. 2. unclearness, indefiniteness,… …
10qualm — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) n. twinge, pang, throe; misgiving, compunction, uneasiness, remorse. See fear, penitence. II (Roget s IV) n. 1. [Doubt] Syn. scruple, misgiving, doubt, compunction, reservation, uneasiness, apprehension …
