Synonyms of the word

misgiving

• n. doubt, apprehension, a feeling of dread.

anxiety

• n. An unpleasant state of mental uneasiness, nervousness, apprehension and obsession or concern about some…
• n. An uneasy or distressing desire (for something).
• n. (pathology) A state of restlessness and agitation, often accompanied by a distressing sense of oppression…

apprehension

• n. (rare) The physical act of seizing or taking hold of; seizure.
• n. (law) The act of seizing or taking by legal process; arrest.
• n. The act of grasping with the intellect; the contemplation of things, without affirming, denying, or passing…
• n. Opinion; conception; sentiment; idea.
• n. The faculty by which ideas are conceived or by which perceptions are grasped; understanding.
• n. Anticipation, mostly of things unfavorable; dread or fear at the prospect of some future ill.

distrust

• n. Lack of trust or confidence.
• v. To put no trust in; to have no confidence in.

doubt

• n. Uncertainty, disbelief.
• v. (transitive, intransitive) To lack confidence in; to disbelieve, question, or suspect.
• v. (archaic) To fear; to suspect.
• v. (obsolete) To fear; to be apprehensive of.
• v. (obsolete) To fill with fear; to affright.

doubtfulness

• n. The state or quality of being doubtful; doubt; uncertainty.

dubiety

• n. (uncountable) Doubtfulness.
• n. (countable) A particular instance of doubt or uncertainty.

dubiousness

• n. The state of being dubious.

expectation

• n. The act or state of expecting or looking forward to an event as about to happen.
• n. That which is expected or looked for.
• n. The prospect of the future; grounds upon which something excellent is expected to occur; prospect of anything…
• n. The value of any chance (as the prospect of prize or property) which depends upon some contingent event.
• n. (statistics) The first moment; the long-run average value of a variable over many independent repetitions…
• n. (colloquial statistics) The arithmetic mean.
• n. (medicine, rare) The leaving of a disease principally to the efforts of nature to effect a cure.

incertitude

• n. uncertainty, doubt, insecurity.

mistrust

• n. Lack of trust or confidence.
• v. (transitive) To have no confidence in (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To be wary, suspicious or doubtful of (something or someone).
• v. (transitive) To suspect, to imagine or suppose (something) to be the case.

outlook

• n. A place from which something can be viewed.
• n. The view from such a place.
• n. An attitude or point of view.
• n. Expectation for the future.
• v. (transitive) To face down; to outstare.
• v. To inspect throughly; to select.

prospect

• n. The region which the eye overlooks at one time; view; scene; outlook.
• n. A picturesque or panoramic view; a landscape; hence, a sketch of a landscape.
• n. A position affording a fine view; a lookout.
• n. Relative position of the front of a building or other structure; face; relative aspect.
• n. The act of looking forward; foresight; anticipation.
• n. The potential things that may come to pass, often favorable.
• n. A hope; a hopeful.
• n. (sports) Any player whose rights are owned by a top-level professional team, but who has yet to play a…
• n. (music) The façade of an organ.
• v. (intransitive) To search, as for gold.
• v. (geology, mining) To determine which minerals or metals are present in a location.

qualm

• n. (now chiefly Britain dialectal) Mortality; plague; pestilence.
• n. (now chiefly Britain dialectal) A calamity or disaster.
• n. A feeling of apprehension, doubt, fear etc.
• n. A sudden sickly feeling; queasiness.
• n. A prick of the conscience; a moral scruple, a pang of guilt. (Now chiefly in negative constructions.).

scruple

• n. (obsolete) A weight of twenty grains or one third of a dram, abbreviated with the symbol ℈.
• n. (obsolete) Hence, a very small quantity; a particle.
• n. Hesitation as to action from the difficulty of determining what is right or expedient; unwillingness,…
• n. (obsolete) A doubt or uncertainty concerning a matter of fact; intellectual perplexity.
• n. A Hebrew unit of time, equal to ¹⁄₁₀₈₀ hour.
• v. (intransitive) To be reluctant or to hesitate, as regards an action, on account of considerations of conscience…
• v. To regard with suspicion; to hesitate at; to question.
• v. (obsolete) To doubt; to question; to hesitate to believe; to question the truth of (a fact, etc.).
• v. To excite scruples in; to cause to scruple.

suspicion

• n. The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
• n. The condition of being suspected.
• n. Uncertainty, doubt.
• n. A trace, or slight indication.
• n. The imagining of something without evidence.
• v. (nonstandard, dialect) To suspect; to have suspicions.

uncertainty

• n. (uncountable) Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction.
• n. (countable) Something uncertain or ambiguous.
• n. (uncountable, mathematics) A parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values.