certainty
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English certeynte, from Anglo-Norman certeinte, from Old French certeinete, from Vulgar Latin *certānitās, from Latin certus.
Pronunciation Nouncertainty
- The state of being certain.
- Synonyms: certitude, sureness
- Antonyms: doubt, uncertainty
- An instance of being certain.
- A fact or truth unquestionably established.
- Synonyms: Thesaurus:sure thing
- 1824, Walter Savage Landor, Imaginary Conversations of Literary Men and Statesmen, volume I, London: […] Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC ↗:
- Certainties are uninteresting and sating.
- French: certitude
- German: Gewissheit
- Italian: certezza
- Portuguese: certeza
- Russian: уве́ренность
- Spanish: certeza
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