iffiness

Their only iffiness is the running game which is too hot and cold to be completely dependable.

In the lexicon of iffiness, and setting the past tense aside, the two words show different degrees of possibility.

If the performance began with the kind of iffiness that is the stuff of odds-making - Would he go on or wouldn't he?

Putting aside any lingering odor from Olympic committee scandal, the Games pose a giant iffiness factor.

In fact, whatever the iffiness of some of the victories, winners are determined by a democratic vote of the whole cast-and-crew membership.

The President, sensitive to the powerful "iffiness" of Mr. Frost's question in the pluperfect, chose to characterize his own past-conditional response in a self-derogating, grammar-spoofing way.

It lends the infinitive event, in contrast with the -ing form, an aura of "iffiness" which brings to mind the possibility that this event might well not have occurred.

As a country that represents a collectivity of immigrations and a forswearing of old countries, you have a real iffiness about getting involved in the frictions of the countries from which people came.

But Oscar Wilde was a poet who knew his moods, and the indicative mood was all too straight in this case; the subjunctive mood introduces a note of wishful thinking or iffiness, and that feeling of contingency was what he was after.

One reason for iffiness about the Northeast is that atmospheric circulation over eastern North America is influenced by sea-surface temperatures in the North Atlantic as well as by El Nino, and forecasts for Atlantic temperatures for this winter are uncertain.