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positiveness
| Main Entry: |
positiveness
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| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sureness |
| Synonyms: | assurance, assuredness, certainty, certitude, confidence, conviction, credence, dependence, faith, hope, reliance, stock, store, sure bet, surety, trust |
| Main Entry: | certainty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | positive assurance |
| Synonyms: | all sewn up, authoritativeness, belief, certitude, cinch, confidence, conviction, credence, definiteness, dogmatism, faith, firmness, indubitableness, inevitability, lock*, lockup, open and shut case, positiveness, positivism, rain or shine, setup, shoo-in, staunchness, steadiness, stock, store, sure bet, sure thing, surefire, sureness, surety, trust, validity, wrap-up |
| Notes: | certitude is a measure of a person's positive feeling about something; certainty is a measure of the degree to which a process or development may be realized |
| Antonyms: | ambiguity, doubt, hesitation, questionableness, uncertainty |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | emphasis |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | importance, prominence |
| Synonyms: | accent, accentuation, attention, decidedness, force, headline, highlight, impressiveness, insistence, intensity, moment, positiveness, power, preeminence, priority, significance, strength, stress, underlining, underscoring, weight |
| Antonyms: | insignificance, unimportance |
| Main Entry: | security |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | peace of mind |
| Synonyms: | assurance, calm, certainty, confidence, conviction, ease, freedom, positiveness, reliance, soundness, sureness, surety |
| Antonyms: | insecurity, uncertainty, worry |
| Main Entry: | sure thing |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | certain thing |
| Synonyms: | all sewn up, belief, cert, certainty, cinch, dead certainty, definiteness, destiny, foregone conclusion, lock*, open and shut case, open-and-shut case, positiveness, rain or shine, safe bet, shoo-in, shoo-in, small risk, sure bet, surefire, surety |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | trust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in something as true, trustworthy |
| Synonyms: | assurance, certainty, certitude, confidence, conviction, credence, credit, dependence, entrustment, expectation, faith, gospel truth, hope, positiveness, reliance, stock, store, sureness |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, distrust, mistrust |
| Main Entry: | assuredness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sureness |
| Synonyms: | assurance, certainty, certitude, conclusiveness, confidence, positiveness, surety |
| Main Entry: | certitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sureness |
| Synonyms: | assurance, assuredness, belief, certainty, confidence, conviction, inevitability, inevitableness, positiveness |
| Notes: | certitude is a measure of a person's positive feeling about something; certainty is a measure of the degree to which a process or development may be realized |
| Main Entry: | sureness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | undoubtedness |
| Synonyms: | assurance, assuredness, certainty, certitude, confidence, conviction, doubtlessness, indubitableness, positiveness, proof, surety |
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