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Uncertainty vs Unperishable - What's the difference?

uncertainty | unperishable |

As a noun uncertainty

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

As an adjective unperishable is

not perishable.

uncertainty

English

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.

    • Antonyms

    * certainty

    External links

    * (wikipedia "uncertainty")

    unperishable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Not perishable.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1891, author=Joseph Addison and Richard Steele, title=The Spectator, Volumes 1, 2 and 3, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=This venerable Person is represented looking forward as it were from the Verge of extreme Old Age, into a future State, and rising into a Contemplation on the unperishable Part of his Nature, and its Existence after Death. }}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1912, author=Charles E Young, title=Dangers of the Trail in 1865, chapter=, edition= citation
    • , passage=The perishable goods were placed in the large warehouses but the unperishable were covered with tarpaulin and left where unloaded. }}