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certainty

noun
/ˈsɝtn̩ti/US/ˈsɜːtn̩ti/UK

Etymology

From Middle English certeynte (“surety”), from Anglo-Norman certeinte, from Old French certeinete, from Vulgar Latin *certānitās, from Latin certus.

  1. derived from certus
  2. derived from *certānitās✻
  3. derived from certeinete
  4. derived from certeinte
  5. inherited from certeynte

Definitions

  1. The state of being certain.

    • with certainty
    • moral certainty
    • absolute certainty

  2. An instance of being certain.

  3. A fact or truth unquestionably established.

    • Certainties are uninteresting and sating.
    • There is a certainty attainable. A certainty of feeling will arise through the very contemplation of Jesus. But there is also attainable a certainty of Reason.
    • Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties.

The neighborhood

Derived

certainty equivalent, legal certainty, moral certainty, noncertainty, of a certainty, racing certainty

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at certainty. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at certainty. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at certainty

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA