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The word of the day is ‘certitude’.
The word is a noun, i.e., it is the main subject of a sentence.
No, the word is a noun. Therefore, it does not have a past form.
It means:
1. Sureness
2. Absolute certainty or conviction that something is the case
3. Certainty
4. Assurance
1. Our main hope lies just in the certitude that he must come to town sooner or later.
2. And it was I myself, perhaps, who could not face the certitude of his downfall.
3. This certitude would have made her put up with worse torments.
4. There had been a certitude that the battle would join about these fords.
5. Since then his slenderness has developed into plumpness and his hope into certitude.
Some synonyms of today’s word are:
assurance, assuredness, belief, certainty, confidence, conviction, inevitability, inevitableness, positiveness, etc.
Some antonyms of this word of the day are:
distrust, doubt, fear, uncertainty etc.
Quotation:
It is difficult to predict technology more than 10 years out with any certitude, but what I observe is that change and innovation happens earlier and faster than we expect. We are constantly surprised at what technology can do.
Jared Cohen
Social Example:
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