sureness

noun

Definition of surenessnext
1
as in certainty
a state of mind in which one is free from doubt unfortunately, he lacked the sureness of his opponent in the tennis match

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2
as in reliability
worthiness as the recipient of another's trust or confidence investors in those risky foreign enterprises were gambling on the sureness of their instincts

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Recent Examples of sureness Both of them remember a collaborator who made up for his inexperience with a calm sense of sureness. — Carlos Aguilar, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2026
Recent Examples of Synonyms for sureness
  1. certainty
  2. reliability
  3. assurance
  4. confidence
  5. conviction
  6. satisfaction
Noun
  • And while borrowers may be hoping for a reprieve, there isn't much certainty about where borrowing costs go from here.
    — Angelica Leicht, CBS News, 10 Sep. 2026
  • Clear regulation can provide organizations with greater certainty about responsible adoption.
    — Ekramy El Zaghat, Forbes.com, 10 Sep. 2026
Definition of certainty
Noun
  • The City of Los Angeles has long recognized that water conservation is the cornerstone of multiple strategies to improve water supply reliability for its residents.
    — Sarah Viramontes, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • Another area with data centers or military facilities could instead prioritize reliability and energy security.
    — Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of reliability
Noun
  • The optimizers have all the money; the empaths only really have one another—and the assurance, however fleeting, that there are more of us than there are of them.
    — Jay Caspian Kang, New Yorker, 8 Sep. 2026
  • The Membership programme, launched in 2025, offers multiple tiers designed to support different levels of assurance, insight and control.
    — SJ Studio, Footwear News, 8 Sep. 2026
Definition of assurance
Noun
  • Jonesboro is 2-0 for the first time since 2019 and should have four quarters of confidence after back-to-back one-score wins.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 9 Sep. 2026
  • To reach the quarterfinals in New York, Zheng had to accept her newfound station in tennis — not to abandon her confidence for the sake of humility, but to combine her natural self-belief with acceptance of her reality and a new perspective.
    — Ava Wallace, New York Times, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of confidence
Noun
  • Judge Anne Hwang determined his prior murder conviction no longer applied as a felony under a landmark 2016 change in California law that barred prosecutors from trying juveniles as adults without a judge’s approval.
    — James Queally, Los Angeles Times, 9 Sep. 2026
  • The perpetrator has no convictions in North Carolina, but SLF is blaming Cooper.
    — Danielle Battaglia, Charlotte Observer, 9 Sep. 2026
Definition of conviction
Noun
  • There was that billowing and entirely formal satisfaction of sails filled with wind.
    — John Phipps, New Yorker, 5 Sep. 2026
  • Gulf News connects the trend with the satisfaction of making something from scratch, whether the finished product is a loaf of bread or a batch of cookies pulled straight from the oven.
    — Ashley Lynch, Charlotte Observer, 3 Sep. 2026
Definition of satisfaction

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“Sureness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/sureness. Accessed 13 Sep. 2026.

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