certainties
SaySUR-tn-teezUS/ˈsɝtn̩tiz/UK/ˈsɜːtn̩tiz/
- 1Plural of certainty.
Death and taxes are among life's few certainties.
Investors crave certainties that volatile markets rarely deliver.
Note
Only the countable side of certainty takes a plural. The state of being certain is a mass idea and stays singular: you have certainty, or more or less of it. A fact established beyond question can be counted, though, and so can each separate instance of being sure. Certainties are therefore things, settled facts or firm convictions that you can list, compare, or lose one at a time.
certainties is a form of certainty
certainty, noun: The state of being completely sure that something is true or will happen. Full entry
- Forms
- certaintycertainties plural
- Spelling
- certainty → certainties: change y to i, add -es
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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