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doubtfulness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt |
| Synonyms: | dubiety, dubiousness, indecision, mistrust, question, questionability, questionableness, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty |
| Main Entry: | ambiguity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | uncertainty of meaning |
| Synonyms: | anagram, double meaning, double-entendre, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, enigma, equivocacy, equivocality, equivocation, incertitude, inconclusiveness, indefiniteness, indeterminateness, obscurity, polysemousness, polysemy, puzzle, tergiversation, uncertainty, unclearness, vagueness |
| Antonyms: | certainty, clarity, clearness, definiteness, explicitness, lucidity |
| Main Entry: | equivocation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | avoidance of an issue |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, amphibology, casuistry, coloring, con, cop out, cover, cover-up, deceit, deception, deceptiveness, delusion, dissimulation, distortion, double entendre, double meaning, double talk, doubtfulness, duplicity, equivocality, evasion, fallacy, fib, fibbing, hedging, lie, line*, lying, misrepresentation, prevarication, quibbling routine, run-around, shuffling, song and dance, song*, sophistry, speciousness, spuriousness, stall, stonewall, tergiversation, waffle |
| Antonyms: | directness, facing, meeting |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | uncertainty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt, changeableness |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, ambivalence, anxiety, bewilderment, concern, confusion, conjecture, contingency, dilemma, disquiet, distrust, doubtfulness, dubiety, guesswork, hesitancy, hesitation, incertitude, inconclusiveness, indecision, irresolution, lack of confidence, misgiving, mistrust, mystification, oscillation, perplexity, puzzle, puzzlement, qualm, quandary, query, questionableness, reserve, scruple, skepticism, suspicion, trouble, uneasiness, unpredictability, vagueness, wonder, worry |
| Antonyms: | certainty, definiteness, security, sureness |
| Main Entry: | dubiety |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt |
| Synonyms: | doubtfulness, dubiousness, incertitude, indecision, uncertainty |
| Antonyms: | certainty |
| Main Entry: | improbability |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | unlikelihood |
| Synonyms: | doubtfulness, implausibility, impossibility, rarity, uncertainty |
| Main Entry: | credibility gap |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | lack of trust |
| Synonyms: | discrepancy, disparity, doubtfulness, forswearing, inconsistency, perjury, question, unreliability, untrustworthiness, untruthfulness |
| Main Entry: | ambiguousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | vagueness |
| Synonyms: | ambiguity, cloudiness, doubtfulness, equivocation, imprecision, inconclusiveness, murkiness, nebulousness, obscureness, obscurity, uncertainty, unclearness |
| Main Entry: | dubiousness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | doubt |
| Synonyms: | doubtfulness, dubiety, indecision, mistrust, question, questionability, questionableness, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty |
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