Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The condition of being doubtful or uncertain. synonym: uncertainty.
  • noun A feeling or matter of doubt.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun Doubtfulness; dubiousness.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun rare Doubtfulness; uncertainty; doubt.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable Doubtfulness.
  • noun countable A particular instance of doubt or uncertainty.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the state of being unsure of something

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin dubietās, from Latin dubius, doubtful; see dubious.]

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  • JM doubts everything to do with dubiety.

    August 29, 2010