uncertainty vs vacillation

uncertainty

noun
  • Doubt; the condition of being uncertain or without conviction. 

  • A parameter that measures the dispersion of a range of measured values. 

  • Something uncertain or ambiguous. 

vacillation

noun
  • Indecision in speech or action. 

  • Changing location by moving back and forth. 

How often have the words uncertainty and vacillation occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )