uncertainty (n.)
- agitation
- ambiguity
- ambivalence
- amphibology
- anxiety
- apprehension
- arrhythmia
- blur
- blurriness
- bother
- break
- capriciousness
- casualness
- chance
- changeableness
- choppiness
- concern
- criticalness
- darkness
- delicacy
- destiny
- diffidence
- dimness
- disconnectedness
- discontinuity
- disquiet
- distress
- distrust
- distrustfulness
- doubt
- doubtfulness
- dread
- dubiety
- dubiousness
- eccentricity
- equivocalness
- faintness
- fate
- feebleness
- fibrillation
- fickleness
- fitfulness
- flier
- flightiness
- fluctuation
- fogginess
- fortuitousness
- fortuity
- fortune
- freakishness
- fuzziness
- gamble
- hap
- happenstance
- hazard
- hazardousness
- haziness
- hesitation
- impulsiveness
- incertitude
- inconsistency
- inconstancy
- indecision
- indecisiveness
- indefiniteness
- indeterminacy
- indeterminateness
- indistinctness
- indistinguishability
- insecurity
- instability
- intermittence
- irony
- irregularity
- irresolution
- jerkiness
- lot
- luck
- misgiving
- mistiness
- mistrust
- moodiness
- opportunity
- paleness
- paronomasia
- patchiness
- perilousness
- perturbation
- pessimism
- play
- plunge
- polysemy
- precariousness
- probability
- punning
- query
- question
- reserve
- restlessness
- risk
- riskiness
- roughness
- salt
- scruple
- scrupulousness
- self-doubt
- serendipity
- shadowiness
- shakiness
- shiftiness
- skepticism
- slipperiness
- spasticity
- speculation
- stagger
- suspense
- suspicion
- suspiciousness
- tergiversation
- touchiness
- trouble
- unclearness
- undependability
- uneasiness
- unevenness
- unhealthiness
- unpredictability
- unreliability
- unsoundness
- unstableness
- unsteadiness
- untrustworthiness
- vagueness
- variability
- variation
- variety
- venture
- waiting
- wantonness
- wariness
- weakness
- whimsicality
- wobble
- wonder
- worry
He is no wise man that will quit a certainty for an uncertainty.
What a chimera, then, is man! what a novelty, what a monster, what a chaos, what a subject of contradiction, what a prodigy! A judge of all things, feeble worm of the earth, depositary of the truth, cloaca of uncertainty and error, the glory and the shame of the universe!
The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it.
