• Dubiety

    Full definition of dubiety

    Noun

    dubiety

    (countable and uncountable; plural dubietys)
    1. (uncountable) Doubtfulness.
      • 1906, David_Graham_Phillips, The Fortune Hunter, ch. 18,Graham fell in with the scheme without a murmur of dubiety or dissent.
    2. (countable) A particular instance of doubt or uncertainty.
      • 1843, Thomas_Carlyle, , book 2, ch. 2,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, , ch. 4,Sterling's dubieties as to continuing at Bordeaux were quickly decided.
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