uncertainness

Other forms of uncertainness

plural

uncertainnesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about uncertainness

What does uncertainness mean?

uncertainness means "being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance".

How many syllables are in uncertainness?

uncertainness has 4 syllables: un-cer-tain-ness. The stress falls on "cer".

What is another word for uncertainness?

Close synonyms include uncertainty, precariousness. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is uncertainness a common word?

uncertainness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.