Uncertainty vs Scruple - What's the difference?
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(uncountable) Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction.
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, title= (countable) Something uncertain or ambiguous.
(uncountable, mathematics) A parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values.
(obsolete) A weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.
(obsolete) Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.
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Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness, doubt, or hesitation proceeding from motives of conscience.
(obsolete) A doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.
A measurement of time. Hebrew culture broke the hour into 1080 scruples.
To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.
To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.
(obsolete) To doubt; to question; to hesitate to believe; to question the truth of (a fact, etc.).
To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.
Uncertainty is a related term of scruple.
As nouns the difference between uncertainty and scruple
is that uncertainty is (uncountable) doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction while scruple is (obsolete) a weight of twenty grains; the third part of a dram.As a verb scruple is
to be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience or expedience.uncertainty
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Noun
Tottenham 1-2 Norwich, passage=After spending so much of the season looking upwards, the swashbuckling style and swagger of early season Spurs was replaced by uncertainty and frustration against a Norwich side who had the quality and verve to take advantage}}
Antonyms
* certaintyExternal links
* (wikipedia "uncertainty")scruple
English
(Webster 1913)Noun
(en noun)- Paroles: I have not, my lord, deserved it.'' Lafeu: ''Yes, good faith, ev'ry dram of it, and I will not bate thee a scruple .
- He was made miserable by the conflict between his tastes and his scruples . - .
Synonyms
* (precise weight) * (small amount) see also .Derived terms
* scrupulous * unscrupulousVerb
(scrupl)- We are often over-precise, scrupling to say or do those things which lawfully we may. - .
- Men scruple at the lawfulness of a set form of divine worship. - .
- Others long before them ... scrupled more the books of hereties than of gentiles. - .
- I do not scruple to admit that all the Earth seeth but only half of the Moon.
- Letters which did still scruple many of them. -E. Symmons.