INDETERMINATION Synonyms: 52 Similar and Opposite Words

indetermination

noun

Definition of indetermination

as in uncertainty

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Noun

Luxury’s financial uncertainty and fashion’s changing cultural reach are part of the picture, but so is audience fatigue.

— Alex Badia, Footwear News, 12 Oct. 2026
Her final season began with uncertainty over whether labor negotiations would disrupt the league’s schedule.

— Jackson Thompson OutKick, FOXNews.com, 11 Oct. 2026

Definition of uncertainty

Noun

The moonshot idea of putting AI data centers into outer space just moved one step closer to reality, despite doubts about its feasibility.

— Marco Quiroz-Gutierrez, Fortune, 10 Oct. 2026
The last thing this young and impressionable Dolphins squad needs is to have doubts that the progress being made, the foundation being laid, is faulty, and fragile.

— Omar Kelly, Miami Herald, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of doubt

Noun

Building teams capable of supporting those priorities adds another consideration to compensation decisions.

— Sheryl Estrada, Fortune, 9 Oct. 2026
Water Cooler won Best Documentary Short at Palm Springs International ShortFest 2026, qualifying the film for Oscar consideration.

— Matthew Carey, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2026

Definition of consideration

Noun

Look only at the brand destruction both AT&T and then Discovery brought upon HBO Max/Max/HBO Max through indecisiveness and shifting strategies.

— Josef Adalian, Vulture, 24 Sep. 2026
On third-and-10 near Tampa Bay’s red zone, Fields scrambled for 15 yards, but three plays later, some indecisiveness led to a 20-yard sack, turning a 24-yard field goal into a 45-yarder.

— Kansas City Star, Kansas City Star, 23 Aug. 2026

Definition of indecisiveness

Noun

In the first trial, an all-White jury convicted him after just an hour of deliberation.

— News Editor, CBS News, 8 Oct. 2026
Accordingly, Trump’s public deliberations about who to invade and who to annihilate were themselves crimes, committed in full view of thousands of diplomats and heads of state.

— Anjali Dayal, Washington Post, 8 Oct. 2026

Definition of deliberation

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