dubiety

English

Etymology

From Late Latin dubietās.

Noun

dubiety (countable and uncountable, plural dubieties)

1. (uncountable) Doubtfulness.
   • 1906, David Graham Phillips, chapter 18, in The Fortune Hunter:

     Graham fell in with the scheme without a murmur of dubiety or dissent.

2. (countable) A particular instance of doubt or uncertainty.
   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 2, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):

     And yet these grim old walls are not a dilettantism and dubiety; they are an earnest fact. It was a most real and serious purpose they were built for!

   • 1851, Thomas Carlyle, chapter 4, in The Life of John Sterling, London: Chapman and Hall, […], →OCLC:

     Sterling's dubieties as to continuing at Bordeaux were quickly decided.

Translations

doubtfulness — see doubtfulness

instance of doubt

• Finnish: epäilys (fi)