uncertainties
- 1Plural of uncertainty.
Investors hate the uncertainties that surround a sudden change in leadership.
The report listed several uncertainties affecting next year's harvest.
Note
A plural that only one meaning of the singular can make. As the state of doubt, uncertainty is a mass noun and does not count. As something uncertain or ambiguous, it does count, and that meaning is what the plural carries. Uncertainties are particular unknowns, like the risks around a leadership change. A general mood of doubt stays singular: there is great uncertainty, not great uncertainties.
uncertainties is a form of uncertainty
uncertainty, noun: A state of doubt; the condition of not being sure or lacking conviction. Full entry
- Forms
- uncertaintyuncertainties plural
- Spelling
- uncertainty → uncertainties: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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