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

"Meinzer," the voice said, with a curious doubtfulness.

From Pursuit by Del Rey, Lester

I saw that doubtfulness, inconstancy, sorrow and the like, could not be in him, seeing I could my self have wish’d to have been exempted from them.

From A Discourse of a Method for the Well Guiding of Reason and the Discovery of Truth in the Sciences by Descartes, René

Thus, while we are the more strongly convinced of a Montaigne influence beginning with Hamlet, we are bound to concede the doubtfulness of any apparent influence before the Second Quarto.

From Montaigne and Shakspere by Robertson, J. M. (John Mackinnon)