certainty

certainty

noun

Definition of CERTAINTY

1

a state of mind in which one is free from doubt <I have full certainty that I'll pass the test>

Synonyms assurance, assuredness, certainty, certitude, cocksureness, conviction, doubtlessness, face, positiveness, satisfaction, sureness, surety

Related Words authoritarianism, dogmatism; decisiveness, determination, firmness, purposefulness, resoluteness, resolution, resolve

Near Antonyms hesitancy, hesitation, indecisiveness, irresolution; disbelief, incredulity, unbelief; anxiety, concern, misgiving; distrust, mistrust, suspicion

Antonyms doubt, incertitude, nonconfidence, uncertainty

2

the quality or state of being impossible to avoid or evade <the proverbial certainty of death and taxes>

Synonyms certainty, ineluctability, inevitableness

Related Words likelihood, probability; inexorability, inexorableness, relentlessness

Near Antonyms preventability; improbability, unlikelihood, unlikeliness; doubtfulness, dubiousness

Antonyms uncertainty