| 单词 | certitude |
| 释义 | certitude (once / 4882 pages) n 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. WORD FAMILYcertitude: certitudes, incertitude+/incertitude: incertitudes USAGE EXAMPLESThe scoreboards of prestige offer a handsome mirage of certitude, but our ongoing discussion about greatness remains unruly, public, perpetual and paramount. Washington Post(Dec 22, 2016) Through their religious holy day, I am better able to confront and clarify my own religious convictions and theological certitudes. Wall Street Journal(Dec 22, 2016) Nicks evokes Byron, in spirit and in certitude: “The heart will break, but broken live on.” The New Yorker(Nov 20, 2016) n total certainty or greater certainty than circumstances warrant Syn|Hyper cocksureness, overconfidence certainty the state of being certain |
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