doubtfulness

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There was too much doubtfulness in what he was doing.

From The Guardian • Feb. 7, 2013

The party candidates in their relative degrees of surety, probability and doubtfulness are herewith presented.

From Time Magazine Archive

For this doubtfulness, since it takes away all pleasure, removes also the beauty.

From An Essay on True and Apparent Beauty in which from Settled Principles is Rendered the Grounds for Choosing and Rejecting Epigrams by Cunningham, J. V. (James Vincent)

The quality or state of being ambiguous; doubtfulness or uncertainty, particularly as to the signification of language, arising from its admitting of more than one meaning; an equivocal word or expression.

From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Webster, Noah

Mr. Zwiebel looked at his wife with an elaborate assumption of doubtfulness.

From The Competitive Nephew by Glass, Montague