(certainties)
1.
Certainty is the state of being definite or of having no doubts at all about something.
I have told them with absolute ~ there’ll be no change of policy...
There is too little ~ about the present state of the German economy.
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2.
Certainty is the fact that something is certain to happen.
A general election became a ~ three weeks ago.
...the ~ of more violence and bloodshed...
= inevitability
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3.
Certainties are things that nobody has any doubts about.
There are no certainties in modern Europe...
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