Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being sure or certain; certainty.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The state of being sure; certainty.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun uncountable The property of being sure, certainty.
  • noun uncountable The property of being sure, deft, confident of ability.
  • noun countable, rare The result or product of being sure.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun the quality of being steady and unfailing
  • noun freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities

Etymologies

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From sure +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • "But, no doubt, the sureness has been a good servant in his business," returned the Judge.

    The Project Gutenberg Complete Works of Gilbert Parker Gilbert Parker 1897

  • "But, no doubt, the sureness has been a good servant in his business," returned the Judge.

    The Money Master, Complete Gilbert Parker 1897

  • "But, no doubt, the sureness has been a good servant in his business," returned the Judge.

    The Money Master, Volume 2. Gilbert Parker 1897

  • A positive result in particle physics requires what's called five sigma, which is a probability of 99.99997 percent sureness, which is fantastic.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • A positive result in particle physics requires what's called five sigma, which is a probability of 99.99997 percent sureness, which is fantastic.

    NPR Topics: News 2011

  • Greatheart -- Greatheart the valiant -- her knight of the golden armour, going before her, strong to defend, -- invincible, unafraid, sure by means of that sureness which is given only to those who draw upon a Higher

    Greatheart 1910

  • I will not ask whether you have any religion or not, because most of you are professors of religion, but I do ask, Has your religion got this element of 'sureness' in it?

    Standards of Life and Service Thomas Henry Howard 1886

  • Evidently, if visions would make us sure, God does not care about the kind of sureness they can give, or for our being made sure in that way.

    Warlock o' Glenwarlock George MacDonald 1864

  • That alone is reason to go, since "Blood Knot," the 1961 two-man play that introduced Mr. Fugard to the world's stages, is a modern classic, a play that moves with stealthy sureness from a quiet, almost nonchalant start to an overwhelming conclusion.

    Waiting for Mandela Terry Teachout 2012

  • Maybe, some close to him say, the old sureness of touch has gone.

    Paul Dacre: a headline act making the news | profile 2011

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