Meaning of CERTAINTY
| Pronunciation: | | 'surtntee
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- [n] something that is certain; "his victory is a certainty"
- [n] the state of being certain; "his certainty reassured the others"
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| | Synonyms: | | sure thing |
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| | Antonyms: | | doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, uncertainness, uncertainty, uncertainty | | |
| | See Also: | | assurance, authority, cert, certitude, cocksureness, cognitive state, confidence, indisputability, indubitability, inevitability, inevitableness, overconfidence, predictability, quality, reliance, self-assurance, self-confidence, state of mind, sureness, surety, trust, unquestionability, unquestionableness | |
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| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \Cer"tain*ty\, n.; pl. {Certainties}. [OF.
certainet['e].]
1. The quality, state, or condition, of being certain.
The certainty of punishment is the truest security
against crimes. --Fisher Ames.
2. A fact or truth unquestionable established.
Certainties are uninteresting and sating. --Landor.
3. (Law) Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity.
{Of a certainty}, certainly.
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| | Related Terms: | | absolutely, absoluteness, acceptation, acception, acquiescence, act of God, actuality, anticipation, assurance, assuredly, assuredness, authoritativeness, belief, certainly, certitude, confidence, connection, contemplation, conviction, credence, credit, credulity, definitely, definiteness, dependence, dogmatism, expectancy, expectation, fact, faith, fate, fatefulness, firmness, for a certainty, for sure, force majeure, hope, imminence, indefeasibility, indubitably, ineluctability, inescapableness, inevasibleness, inevitability, inevitable accident, inevitableness, inexorability, inflexibility, irrevocability, necessity, positively, positiveness, positivism, predetermination, probability, prospect, reality, reception, relentlessness, reliance, reliance on, self-assurance, staunchness, steadiness, stock, store, sure thing, surely, sureness, surety, suspension of disbelief, thought, trust, truth, unastonishment, unavoidable casualty, unavoidableness, uncontrollability, undeflectability, undeniably, undoubtedly, unpreventability, unquestionably, unyieldingness, vis major |
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