Faith vs Certainty - What's the difference?
faith | certainty | Synonyms |
A feeling, conviction, or belief that something is true or real, not contingent upon reason or justification.
A religious belief system.
An obligation of loyalty or fidelity and the observance of such an obligation.
A trust or confidence in the intentions or abilities of a person, object, or ideal.
(obsolete) Credibility or truth.
* Mitford
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
Faith is a synonym of certainty.
As nouns the difference between faith and certainty
is that faith is seer, soothsayer while certainty is the state of being certain.faith
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Alternative forms
* feith, feithe, fayth, faythe, faithe (obsolete)Noun
- Have faith that the criminal justice system will avenge the murder.
- I have faith that my prayers will be answered.
- I have faith in the healing power of crystals.
- The Christian faith .
- He acted in good faith to restore broken diplomatic ties after defeating the incumbent.
- I have faith in the goodness of my fellow man.
- the faith of the foregoing narrative
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(English Citations of "faith")Synonyms
* belief, confidence, trust,ignorance, arrogance, conviction * (system of religious belief) religionHyponyms
* (religious belief system) Christianity, Buddhism, Hinduism, Islam, Judaism, Wicca, Eckankar, , Zoroastrianism, New Age, Unitarian Universalism, Jainism, Shinto, LaVeyan Satanism, Scientology, Taoism, Yoruba, Druidry, paganism, Juche, Cao Dai, Confucianism, Spiritism, humanism, Rastafarianism, TenrikyoDerived terms
* Attic faith * bad faith * faithful * faithfully * faithfulness * faith-healer * faithing * faithless * in faith * Punic faithExternal links
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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.