Positiveness vs Sureness - What's the difference?
positiveness | sureness | Related terms |
(uncountable) The quality of being positive; positivity.
*1929 , (Ernest Hemingway), A Farewell to Arms , Folio Society 2008, p. 48:
*:Nobody knew anything about it although they all spoke with great positiveness and strategical knowledge.
(countable) The result of being positive
(uncountable) The property of being sure, certainty.
:His sureness was born of having looked it up in a reputable reference book.
(uncountable) The property of being sure, deft, confident of ability.
:The surgeon's sureness was the result of long study in school and long practice in the operating room, never did he hesitate and never was there a mis-move.
(countable, rare) The result or product of being sure.