certainty
The state of being certain.
Noun
- The state of being certain.
- with certainty
- moral certainty
- absolute certainty
Antonyms: doubt uncertainty
- An instance of being certain.
- A fact or truth unquestionably established.
- Certainties are uninteresting and sating. - 1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume I, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC:
- There is a certainty attainable. A certainty of feeling will arise through the very contemplation of Jesus. But there is also attainable a certainty of Reason. - 1895, Alexander Robinson, chapter XXI, in The Saviour in...
- Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as...
Synonyms: banker cert certainty certitude cinch dead cert fatality inevitability racing certainty sure thing fair bet good bet safe bet sure bet
Origin
From Middle English certeynte (“surety”), from Anglo-Norman certeinte, from Old French certeinete, from Vulgar Latin *certānitās, from Latin certus.
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certainty equivalent legal certainty moral certainty noncertainty of a certainty racing certainty