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n. - Being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance.

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  • Adjective : an uncertain smile. ,a manuscript of uncertain origin. ,an abstruse novel with uncertain themes. ,a person of uncertain opinions....
  • We are not born American, we become American, and this creates a sort of uncertainness, a sort of fragility.
  • "Moments of uncertainness and mistrust between ourselves have been put behind us," said President dos Santos, who has been in power since 1979.
  • As he stood there in anxious uncertainness he heard a low voice among the bushes.
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