Uncertainty
nouncandidate·updated May 12, 2026
The difficulty of predicting an outcome due to limited knowledge of all components
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Senses
Systems and software engineering —Vocabulary
Result of not having accurate or sufficient knowledge of a situation; state, even partial, of deficiency of information related to understanding or knowledge of an event, its consequence, or likelihood
Wordset Dictionary
the state of being unsure of something
Wordset Dictionary
being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance
Classifications
Entity Type
Metric0%rule-basedmulti_axis_classifier_low_confidence.v1
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Sensitivity
—90%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Information Class
—95%llm-generatedllm:claude-haiku-4-5
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Variants
- synonym
- doubtdoubtfulnessdubietydubiousnessincertitudeuncertainness
- plural
- Uncertainties
- possessive
- Uncertainty's
- pluralpossessive
- Uncertainties'