certainty
noun
1 certainty
The state of being certain.
Roget 484:
belief;
credence;
credit;
assurance;
faith,
trust,
troth,
confidence,
presumption,
sanguine expectation
etc.
(hope)
858;
dependence on,
reliance on.
persuasion,
conviction,
convincement†,
plerophory†,
self-conviction;
certainty
etc.
474;
opinion,
mind,
view;
conception,
thinking;
impression
etc.
(idea)
453;
surmise
etc.
514;
conclusion
etc.
(judgment)
480.
tenet,
dogma,
principle,
way of thinking;
popular belief
etc.
(assent)
488.
firm belief,
implicit belief,
settled belief,
fixed rooted deep-rooted belief,
staunch belief,
unshaken belief,
steadfast belief,
inveterate belief,
calm belief,
sober belief,
dispassionate belief,
impartial belief,
well-founded belief,
firm opinion,
implicit opinion,
settled opinion,
fixed rooted deep-rooted opinion,
staunch opinion,
unshaken opinion,
steadfast opinion,
inveterate opinion,
calm opinion,
sober opinion,
dispassionate opinion,
impartial opinion,
well-founded opinion
&c.;
uberrima fides [Lat.].
system of opinions,
school,
doctrine,
articles,
canons;
article of faith,
declaration of faith,
profession of faith;
tenets,
credenda†,
creed;
thirty-nine articles
etc.
(orthodoxy)
983.1;
catechism;
assent
etc.
488;
propaganda
etc.
(teaching)
537.
credibility
etc.
(probability)
472.
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Roget 474:
certainty;
necessity
etc.
601;
certitude,
surety,
assurance;
dead certainty,
moral certainty;
infallibleness
etc.
adj.;
infallibility,
reliability;
indubitableness,
inevitableness,
unquestionableness†.
gospel,
scripture,
church,
pope,
court of final appeal;
res judicata [Lat.],
ultimatum positiveness;
dogmatism,
dogmatist,
dogmatizer;
doctrinaire,
bigot,
opinionist†,
Sir Oracle;
ipse dixit [Lat.].
fact;
positive fact,
matter of fact;
fait accompli [Fr.].
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Dutch: zekerheid
2 certainty
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