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Dubiousness

Dubiousness \Du"bi*ous*ness\, n. State of being dubious.

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dubiousness

n. The state of being dubious.

WordNet
dubiousness
  1. n. the state of being unsure of something [syn: doubt, uncertainty, incertitude, dubiety, doubtfulness] [ant: certainty]

  2. uncertainty about the truth or factuality of existence of something; "the dubiousness of his claim"; "there is no question about the validity of the enterprise" [syn: doubt, doubtfulness, question]

Usage examples of "dubiousness".

He had already learned by experience that faith and doubt belong together, that they govern each other like inhaling and exhaling, and that his very advances in all aspects of the Game's mirocosm naturally sharpened his eyes to all the dubiousness of the Game.

And evidently, even in times past when he had thought and done the opposite of the things he was thinking and doing today, he had somehow known or at least dimly divined the dubiousness of it all.

It is not usual and normal for anyone, without some urgent provocation from outside, to suddenly implore his colleagues to remember their mortality and the dubiousness of their entire lives.

Tritch undulated in polite dubiousness, walked ahead to the gangway, and ordered the ship's loading doors to open.

This audience expressed its astonishment, in the dubiousness of its faint applause.

A neighboring cauldron was threatening to overflow, and this added to the dubiousness of the situation.