as in certainty
a state of mind in which one is free from doubt
I can't state with any positiveness that I know what really happened
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for positiveness
Noun
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This gives you certainty and a guarantee of progress.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes.com,
8 Aug. 2025 -
But instead of a decade of policy certainty as had been expected, federal tax credits for clean energy now are set to abruptly end after 2027.—
Mike O’Boyle,
Mercury News,
7 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Often, when Trump has undermined confidence in America’s shared epistemology, doing so has rebounded to his advantage.—
Jon Allsop,
New Yorker,
8 Aug. 2025
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This is all too much confidence about an unsustainable trend!—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
8 Aug. 2025
Noun
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This dynamic, automated and tamper-proof validation offered superior assurance compared to traditional static reporting methods.—
Mirror Tang,
Forbes.com,
15 Aug. 2025
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Headline-grabbing promises and assurances of simple solutions have worked well for Trump in domestic political campaigning, but defaulting to the types of blustery deal-making that Trump has done his whole life is simply not going to work for extremely sensitive international relations.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
14 Aug. 2025
Noun
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The president pardoned rapper Lil Wayne before leaving office in 2020, clearing a federal weapons conviction.—
Antonio Pequeño IV,
Forbes.com,
5 Aug. 2025
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Allen, who's appealing his conviction and sentence, was recently moved to an Oklahoma prison.—
Jenny Porter Tilley,
IndyStar,
5 Aug. 2025
Noun
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From low-rise jeans to the tactile satisfaction of flip phones and disposable cameras, many in Cairo's generation are embracing the aesthetics and slower pacing of a pre-streaming, pre-constant-notification world.—
Melissa Fleur Afshar,
MSNBC Newsweek,
17 Aug. 2025
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But Crow-Armstrong apparently answered it to Counsell’s satisfaction and had a nice afternoon.—
Paul Sullivan,
Chicago Tribune,
15 Aug. 2025
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“Positiveness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/positiveness. Accessed 20 Aug. 2025.
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