uncertainty
/ʌnˈsɜːrtənti/
the degree to which available evidence leaves an answer unknown, ambiguous, or unreliable
uncertainty in a sentence
“The response separated confirmed facts from uncertainty about next quarter.”
Origin of uncertainty
Latin certus settled with un- not + -ty
Related Words
abstention
a deliberate refusal to answer when evidence, authorization, or capability is insufficient
stop condition
a rule that ends generation or an agent loop once a stated state is reached
output contract
an explicit agreement about the fields, format, rules, and failure behavior of a response
output schema
a formal description of a data structure, including its fields, types, and allowed values
structured output
a response produced in a predictable machine-readable shape, often constrained by a schema
response verbosity
the amount of detail and explanation in a response