Dictionary Definition
sureness
Noun
1 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" [syn: assurance, self-assurance,
confidence, self-confidence,
authority]
2 the quality of being steady and unfailing;
"sureness of hand"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
sureness- The property of being sure, certainty.
- His sureness was born of having looked it up in a reputable reference book.
- The property of being sure, deft, confident of ability.
- The surgeon's sureness was the result of long study in school and long practice in the operating room, never did he hesitate and never was there a mis-move.
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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,
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