Word Study
sureness
CIDE DICTIONARY
sureness, n.
The state of being sure; certainty. [1913 Webster]
"For more sureness he repeats it." [1913 Webster]
"The law holds with equal sureness for all right action." [1913 Webster]
THESAURUS
sureness
absolute certainty, absoluteness, acceptation, acception, acquiescence, act of God, arrogance, assurance, assuredness, belief, certain knowledge, certainness, certainty, certitude, cocksureness, confidence, confidentness, conviction, courage, credence, credit, credulity, dead certainty, definiteness, dependability, dependence, determinacy, determinateness, faith, faithworthiness, fate, fatefulness, force majeure, hope, hubris, incorruptibility, indefeasibility, ineluctability, inerrability, inerrancy, inescapableness, inevasibleness, inevitability, inevitable accident, inevitableness, inexorability, infallibilism, infallibility, inflexibility, inviolability, irrevocability, necessity, nonambiguity, noncontingency, overconfidence, oversureness, overweening, overweeningness, poise, pomposity, positiveness, predestination, predetermination, pride, probatum, proved fact, reception, relentlessness, reliability, reliance, reliance on, responsibility, security, self-assurance, self-confidence, self-importance, self-reliance, settled belief, stock, store, subjective certainty, surety, suspension of disbelief, trust, trustability, trustiness, trustworthiness, truth, unambiguity, unavoidable casualty, unavoidableness, uncontrollability, undeflectability, unequivocalness, unfalseness, univocity, unmistakableness, unperfidiousness, unpreventability, untreacherousness, unyieldingness, vis majorFor further exploring for "sureness" in Webster Dictionary Online