certainty
Idioms about certainty
for / of a certainty, certainly; without a doubt: I suspect it, but I don't know it for a certainty.
Origin of certainty
1synonym study For certainty
Other words for certainty
Other words from certainty
- non·cer·tain·ty, noun, plural non·cer·tain·ties.
Words that may be confused with certainty
- certainty , certitude
Words Nearby certainty
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How to use certainty in a sentence
It’s time to establish the regulatory certainty to extract and trade space resources.
NASA will pay for moon rocks excavated by private companies | Neel Patel | September 10, 2020 | MIT Technology Review“It’s time for regulatory certainty to extract and trade space resources,” Bridenstine said in a tweet.
NASA wants to buy moon rocks from anyone who can fund their own space trip | Verne Kopytoff | September 10, 2020 | FortuneThere are simply too many factors for anyone to offer certainty.
Although we noted that a 60-game season wouldn’t offer much less certainty than a 162-game campaign usually does, it’s also true that a sample of 60 games can be unrepresentative of how good a team actually is.
Bad Teams May Be Posing As Good Teams In A 60-Game Baseball Season | Neil Paine (neil.paine@fivethirtyeight.com) | August 7, 2020 | FiveThirtyEightWhen your opponent played rock or paper with equal probability, you knew with certainty they wouldn’t play scissors, and that meant if you played paper you couldn’t lose.
Absent a body, no one can say with absolute certainty whether Castro is dead, even if all signs point in that direction.
An Informant, a Missing American, and Juarez’s House of Death: Inside the 12-Year Cold Case of David Castro | Bill Conroy | January 6, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTIt is a near certainty that jailed gays and lesbians face horrifying violence in prison.
And he says that with something he does share with Christopher—a tone of absolute, self-assured certainty.
He criticized rather than praised the merits of powerful government, but he did so with unequivocal certainty.
Kundera sees fiction as a realm of many partial truths, its only certainty “the wisdom of uncertainty.”
It's a certainty that they will be captured if they spend that money at any trading-post within our jurisdiction.
Raw Gold | Bertrand W. SinclairI wouldn't part for a second with the certainty that I am the biggest figure in young England to-day.
Ancestors | Gertrude AthertonWhen an article is written, the financial reward (and we may as well live as not) is a matter of certainty.
First Plays | A. A. MilneThe length of the fibre, moreover, cannot be determined with any absolute certainty from the thickness of the vein.
Asbestos | Robert H. JonesIt was not my good fortune to be allowed to follow up my plans, which almost warranted a certainty of success.
Life of Richard Trevithick, Volume II (of 2) | Francis Trevithick
British Dictionary definitions for certainty
/ (ˈsɜːtəntɪ) /
the condition of being certain
something established as certain or inevitable
for a certainty without doubt
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