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certainty noun [ ˈsəːt(ə)nti ]

• firm conviction that something is the case.
• "she knew with absolute certainty that they were dead"
Similar: confidence, sureness, positiveness, conviction, certitude, reliability, assuredness, assurance, validity, conclusiveness, authoritativeness, truth, fact, factualness,
Opposite: uncertainty, doubt,
Origin: Middle English: from Old French certainete, from certain (see certain).

for a certainty

• beyond the possibility of doubt.
"he knew they would come again for a certainty"



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