Certainty vs Assurance - What's the difference?
certainty | assurance |
The state of being certain.
* Fisher Ames
An instance of being certain.
A fact or truth unquestionably established.
* November 2 2014 , Daniel Taylor, "
* 1824 , (Walter Savage Landor), Imaginary Conversations Volume 1
The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
*(w) xvii. 31.
*:Whereof he hath given assurance unto all men, in that he hath raised him from the dead.
* (1800-1859)
*:Assurances of support came pouring in daily.
The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
*(w) x. 22.
*:Let us draw with a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled from an evil conscience.
Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
*(Richard Knolles) (1545-1610)
*:Brave men meet danger with assurance .
*(John Locke) (1632-1705)
*:Conversation with the world will give them knowledge and assurance .
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.His air, of self-confident assurance , seemed that of a man well used to having his own way.
Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.
(lb) Betrothal; affiance.
Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. &hand; Recently, assurance has been used, in England, in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited.
(lb) Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed. &hand; In England, the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom. ((William Blackstone) (1723-1780))
As nouns the difference between certainty and assurance
is that certainty is the state of being certain while assurance is the act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.certainty
English
Noun
- 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.