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sureness
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sureness has 2 senses
- sureness(n = noun.cognition) assurance, authority, confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence - freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities; "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "she spoke with authority" is a kind of certainty
- sureness(n = noun.attribute) Array - the quality of being steady and unfailing; "sureness of hand" is a kind of firmness, steadiness
Derived forms adjective sure1, adjective sure7
Derived form adjective sure8
CIDE DICTIONARY
sureness, n.
The state of being sure; certainty. [1913 Webster]
"For more sureness he repeats it."
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"The law holds with equal sureness for all right action."
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THESAURUS
sureness
absolute certainty, absoluteness, acceptation, acception, acquiescence, act of God, arrogance, assurance, assuredness, belief, certain knowledge, certainness, certainty, certitude, cocksureness, confidence, confidentness, conviction, courage, credence, credit, credulity, dead certainty, definiteness, dependability, dependence, determinacy, determinateness, faith, faithworthiness, fate, fatefulness, force majeure, hope, hubris, incorruptibility, indefeasibility, ineluctability, inerrability, inerrancy, inescapableness, inevasibleness, inevitability, inevitable accident, inevitableness, inexorability, infallibilism, infallibility, inflexibility, inviolability, irrevocability, necessity, nonambiguity, noncontingency, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, poise, pomposity, positiveness, predestination, predetermination, pride, probatum, proved fact, reception, relentlessness, reliability, reliance, reliance on, responsibility, security, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-importance, self-reliance, settled belief, stock, store, subjective certainty, surety, suspension of disbelief, trust, trustability, trustiness, trustworthiness, truth, unambiguity, unavoidable casualty, unavoidableness, uncontrollability, undeflectability, unequivocalness, unfalseness, univocity, unmistakableness, unperfidiousness, unpreventability, untreacherousness, unyieldingness, vis major
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