doubtfulness

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There was too much doubtfulness in what he was doing.

From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2013

The party candidates in their relative degrees of surety, probability and doubtfulness are herewith presented.

From Time Magazine Archive

But perhaps it was a feeling of doubtfulness about the coat, which prompted a startling departure in his costume.

From Impressions of a War Correspondent by Lynch, George

Thus, while we are the more strongly convinced of a Montaigne influence beginning with Hamlet, we are bound to concede the doubtfulness of any apparent influence before the Second Quarto.

From Montaigne and Shakspere by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)

We are at pains to affirm only that which may be conceived of as doubtful, therefore admit a certain doubtfulness by the act of asserting.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 16, No. 96, October 1865 by Various