Definition of INCERTITUDE

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a growing incertitude about the honesty of the housekeeper they had just hired

Recent Examples on the Web But underneath the skepticism, something else nagged at me: the sense that my incertitude was a metastasis of our jittery, gaslit world, where baseline reality is increasingly in dispute. — New York Times, "The Cell, the Spell and the Mystery of ‘Sea Wall/A Life’," 27 Aug. 2019 The difficulty for me in pinning the city down geographically is reflected in a broader ideological incertitude; a current questioning of the state’s identity and place. — Marley Marius, Vogue, "A Guide to Kansas City, Missouri: Its History, Its Culture, and Why It’s Worth a Closer Look," 23 Nov. 2018 Like him, these TPS recipients will now how to live in incertitude. — Fabienne Josaphat, Teen Vogue, "My Father’s Earthquake Survival Story is Why Haitians Need Temporary Protective Status," 11 Dec. 2017

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“Incertitude.” The Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster Inc., https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/incertitude. Accessed 27 January 2020.