certainty

[cer·tain·ty]

The state of being certain

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The quality, state, or condition, of being certain.

Noun
something that is certain; "his victory is a certainty"

Noun
the state of being certain; "his certainty reassured the others"


n.
The quality, state, or condition, of being certain.

n.
A fact or truth unquestionable established.

n.
Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity.


Certainty

Cer"tain*ty , n.; pl. Certainties . [OF. certainet'82.] 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.
3. (Law) Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity. Of a certainty, certainly.

The quality, state, or condition, of being certain.

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Usage Examples

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

A liberal knows that the only certainty in this life is change but believes that the change can be directed toward a constructive end.

For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.

If I knew for a certainty that a man was coming to my house with the conscious design of doing me good, I should run for my life.

Fundamentalists are panicked by the apparent disintegration of the family, the disappearance of certainty and the decay of morality. Fear leads them to ask, if we cannot trust the Bible, what can we trust?

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

Mystery is gone to the certainty of technological principles. So the real terror, the real aggression against life comes in the form of the pursuit of our technological happiness.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

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Other Usage Examples

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Jealousy lives upon doubts. It becomes madness or ceases entirely as soon as we pass from doubt to certainty.

I found it peculiar that those who wanted to take military action could - with 100 per cent certainty - know that the weapons existed and turn out to have zero knowledge of where they were.

I feel, sometimes, as the renaissance man must have felt in finding new riches at every point and in the certainty that unexplored areas of knowledge and experience await at every turn.

I'm a scientist, not a theologian. I don't know if there is a God or not. Religion requires certainty.

Adventure upon all the tickets in the lottery, and you lose for certain and the greater the number of your tickets the nearer your approach to this certainty.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

If I am fool, it is, at least, a doubting one and I envy no one the certainty of his self-approved wisdom.

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