SURENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sureness mean? 

• SURENESS (noun)
  The noun SURENESS has 2 senses:

1. freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities

2. the quality of being steady and unfailing

  Familiarity information: SURENESS used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SURENESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Synonyms:

assurance; authority; confidence; self-assurance; self-confidence; sureness

Context example:

she spoke with authority

Hypernyms ("sureness" is a kind of...):

certainty (the state of being certain)

Attribute:

certain; sure (having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured)

incertain; uncertain; unsure (lacking or indicating lack of confidence or assurance)

Derivation:

sure (having or feeling no doubt or uncertainty; confident and assured)

sure (infallible or unfailing)

Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being steady and unfailing

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

sureness of hand

Hypernyms ("sureness" is a kind of...):

firmness; steadiness (the quality of being steady or securely and immovably fixed in place)

Derivation:

sure (certain not to fail)

 Context examples 

He must have divined Wolf Larsen’s trick and the sureness of detection, for the light was at once dashed from my hand and the forecastle was left in darkness.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

He betrayed the inaccuracies of the self-read man, and, it must be granted, the sureness and directness of the primitive mind.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)