certitude
Other forms: certitudes
If you're absolutely convinced your team is going to the Super Bowl, you state it with certitude or confidence.
Your team didn't make it? Oh dear, you were guilty of certitude — an absolute conviction that the outcome of the game did not support. In other words, you were a tad cocky. Certitude is very similar to certainty, and often used interchangeably, but there's a hint of danger about certitude; someone who displays it may well be overconfident. Certainty is more certain.
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total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrantsynonyms: cocksureness, overconfidencetype of:certaintythe state of being sure about something
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In this action-packed adventure story, a domesticated dog must shed his civilized ways to become a proper sled dog during the Yukon Gold Rush.
In this poem, the speaker mediates on the human condition as he experiences the sights and sounds of a beach in Dover, England. He tells his beloved that they must remain true to each other because the world is fully of misery and uncertainty. Read the full text here.