dubiety

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dubiety (countable and uncountable; plural dubieties)

(uncountable) Doubtfulness.
- 1906, David Graham Phillips, The Fortune Hunter, ch. 18,
  
  Graham fell in with the scheme without a murmur of dubiety or dissent.
(countable) A particular instance of doubt or uncertainty.
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, 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, Life of John Sterling, ch. 4,
  
  Sterling's dubieties as to continuing at Bordeaux were quickly decided.