incertainty

English

Etymology

From Old French incertaineté.

Noun

incertainty (countable and uncountable, plural incertainties)

1. (obsolete) Uncertainty.
   • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
     , II.4.1.i:

     all is naught, full of imposture, incertainty, and doth generally more harm then good.