certainty

5 definitions • 6 examples

the state of being completely confident or having no doubt about something:

with certainty I'm unable to answer that question with any certainty.

something that cannot be doubted:

There are few absolute certainties in life.

something that is very likely to happen:

Joan will win - that's a certainty.

a certainty to Joan is a certainty to win.

the sure knowledge that something is true:

Can you say with absolute certainty that this is the man you saw?

something that has no possibility of any other result; something that you know will happen in a particular way:

There are few certainties in life.