Accuracy vs Certainty - What's the difference?
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The state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness
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*:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy? ; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
Exact conformity to truth, or to a rule or model; degree of conformity of a measure to a true or standard value.
The state of being certain.
* Fisher Ames
An instance of being certain.
A fact or truth unquestionably established.
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* 1824 , (Walter Savage Landor), Imaginary Conversations Volume 1
As nouns the difference between accuracy and certainty
is that accuracy is the state of being accurate; freedom from mistakes, this exemption arising from carefulness; exactness; nicety; correctness while certainty is the state of being certain.accuracy
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(Webster 1913)Noun
(accuracies)Synonyms
* correctness * truthfulnessAntonyms
* inaccuracySee also
* precision * integrity * exactness * fidelityExternal links
*certainty
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- The certainty of punishment is the truest security against crimes.
Sergio Agüero strike wins derby for Manchester City against 10-man United," guardian.co.uk
- Yet the truth is that City would probably have been coasting by that point if the referee, Michael Oliver, had not turned down three separate penalties, at least two of which could be accurately described as certainties .
- Certainties are uninteresting and sating.