Noun

(uncountable) Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction.

*

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=“Well,” I answered, at first with uncertainty , then with inspiration, “he would do splendidly to lead your cotillon, if you think of having one.” ¶ “So you do not dance, Mr. Crocker?” ¶ I was somewhat set back by her perspicuity.}}

* {{quote-news, year=2012, date=April 9, author=Mandeep Sanghera, work=BBC Sport

, title= 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}}

(countable) Something uncertain or ambiguous.

(uncountable, mathematics) A parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values.

Noun

(en noun)

(obsolete) Ability to harm; someone's dominion or power to harm or penalise. See In one's danger, below.

"You stand within his danger , do you not?" (Shakespeare, ''Merchant of Venice'', 4:1:180)

* Robynson (More's Utopia)

Covetousness of gains hath brought [them] in danger of this statute.

(obsolete) Liability.

* 1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Matthew V:

Thou shalt not kyll. Whosoever shall kyll, shalbe in daunger of iudgement.

(obsolete) Difficulty; sparingness.

(Chaucer)

(obsolete) Coyness; disdainful behavior.

(Chaucer)

(obsolete) A place where one is in the hands of the enemy.

Exposure to liable harm.

"Danger is a good teacher, and makes apt scholars" ((William Hazlitt), ''Table talk'').

An instance or cause of liable harm.

"Two territorial questions..unsettled..each of which was a positive danger to the peace of Europe" (''Times'', 5 Sept. 3/2).

Mischief.

"We put a Sting in him, / That at his will he may doe danger with" (Shakespeare, ''Julius Caesar'', 2:1:17).