| 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 |
| Main Entry: | destiny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fate |
Synonyms: |
Moirai, afterlife, break*, breaks, certainty, circumstance, conclusion, condition, constellation, course of events, cup, design, divine decree, doom, expectation, finality, foreordination, fortune, future, happenstance, hereafter, horoscope, inevitability, intent, intention, karma, kismet*, lot, luck, objective, ordinance, portion, predestination, predetermination, prospect, serendipity, the stars, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles, what is written, wheel of fortune, world to come |
Antonyms: |
choice, free will, volition |
| Main Entry: | fatality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | death, loss; ability to cause such |
Synonyms: |
accident, casualty, deadliness, destructiveness, disaster, dying, inevitability, lethality, lethalness, mortality, necrosis, noxiousness, poisonousness, virulence |
Antonyms: |
birth |
| Main Entry: | necessity |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | need, essentiality |
Synonyms: |
call, cause, claim, compulsion, demand, desideratum, duress, essence, essential, exaction, exigency, fundamental, godsend, imperative, indispensability, inevitability, inexorableness, life or death, must, necessary, needfulness, no alternative, no choice, obligation, pinch, precondition, prerequisite, privation, requirement, requisite, sine qua non, stress, undeniability, urgency, vital part, vitals, want |
Antonyms: |
desire, want |
| Main Entry: | predestination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | destiny |
Synonyms: |
God's will, course of events, divine decree, fate, foreordination, fortune, inevitability, karma, kismet*, ordinance, portion, predetermination, way the ball bounces, way the cookie crumbles, what is written |
| Main Entry: | handwriting on the wall |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | impending misfortune |
Synonyms: |
forewarning, inevitability, portents and evils imminent, warning, writing on the wall |
| Main Entry: | certitude |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sureness |
Synonyms: |
assurance, assuredness, belief, certainty, confidence, conviction, inevitability, inevitableness, positiveness |
| Main Entry: | lethality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fatality |
Synonyms: |
accident, casualty, deadliness, destructiveness, disaster, dying, inevitability, lethalness, mortality, necrosis, noxiousness, poisonousness, virulence |
| Main Entry: | certainty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
self, ascertained, assured, authentic, authoriative, avoidless, axiomatic, categorical, certain, clear, conclusive, decided, decisive, definite, definitive, determinate, doubtless, evident, incontestable, incontrovertible, indefeasible, indisputable, indubious, indubitable, inevitable, infallible, insured, irrefutable, iwis, known, official, positive, questionless, reliable, sure, trustworthy, unavoidable, unchangeable, uncontested, undeniable, undisputed, undoubted, unequivocal, unerring, unimpeachable, unmistakable, unqualified, unquestionable, unquestioned, well founded, ywis
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| Main Entry: | destiny |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
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Adjectives: |
instant, about to be, about to happen, at hand, brewing, close at hand, coming, destined, forthcoming, going to happen, hanging over one's head, imminent, impending, in embryo, in prospect, in reserve, in store, in the wind, in the womb of futurity, in the womb of time, looming in the distance, looming in the future, looming in the horizon, near, near at hand, on the cards, overhanging, pregnant, preparing, that is to be, that will be, to come, unborn
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