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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Certainty \Cer"tain*ty\, noun; pl. {Certainties}. [OF. certainet['e].]
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. --Landor.
3. (Law) Clearness; freedom from ambiguity; lucidity.
{Of a certainty}, certainly.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
certainty
noun
1: the state of being certain; "his certainty reassured the others" [ant: {doubt}]
2: something that is certain; "his victory is a certainty" [syn: {sure thing}, {foregone conclusion}] [ant: {uncertainty}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
85 Moby Thesaurus words for "certainty": absolutely, absoluteness, acceptation, acception, acquiescence, act of God, actuality, anticipation, assurance, assuredly, assuredness, authoritativeness, belief, certainly, certitude, confidence, connection, contemplation, conviction, credence, credit, credulity, definitely, definiteness, dependence, dogmatism, expectancy, expectation, fact, faith, fate, fatefulness, firmness, for a certainty, for sure, force majeure, hope, imminence, indefeasibility, indubitably, ineluctability, inescapableness, inevasibleness, inevitability, inevitable accident, inevitableness, inexorability, inflexibility, irrevocability, necessity, positively, positiveness, positivism, predetermination, probability, prospect, reality, reception, relentlessness, reliance, reliance on, self-assurance, staunchness, steadiness, stock, store, sure thing, surely, sureness, surety, suspension of disbelief, thought, trust, truth, unastonishment, unavoidable casualty, unavoidableness, uncontrollability, undeflectability, undeniably, undoubtedly, unpreventability, unquestionably, unyieldingness, vis major
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