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" The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded."
Pam Ferris

Meaning of "certainties" in the English dictionary

DICTIONARY

PRONUNCIATION OF CERTAINTIES

certainties


GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF CERTAINTIES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Certainties is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE CERTAINTIES

cert · certain · certainly · certainty · CertEd · certes · certifiable · certifiably · certificate · certificate of deposit · certificate of incorporation · certificate of origin · Certificate of Secondary Education · certificate of unruliness · certificated · certification · certificatory · certified · certified accountant · certified mail

WORDS THAT END LIKE CERTAINTIES

activities · bounties · chanties · counties · dainties · guaranties · Home Counties · Mounties · panties · plenties · Roaring Twenties · seventies · shanties · Six Counties · sonties · sovereignties · twenties · twenty-six counties · uncertainties · vice-counties · warranties

Synonyms and antonyms of certainties in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «CERTAINTIES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «certainties» and belong to the same grammatical category.

Translation of «certainties» into 25 languages

TRANSLATOR

TRANSLATION OF CERTAINTIES

Find out the translation of certainties to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.

The translations of certainties from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «certainties» in English.
zh

Translator English - Chinese

确定性
1,325 millions of speakers
es

Translator English - Spanish

certezas
570 millions of speakers
en

English

certainties
510 millions of speakers
hi

Translator English - Hindi

निश्चितताओं
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

اليقين
280 millions of speakers
ru

Translator English - Russian

несомненных
278 millions of speakers
pt

Translator English - Portuguese

certezas
270 millions of speakers
bn

Translator English - Bengali

certainties
260 millions of speakers
fr

Translator English - French

certitudes
220 millions of speakers
ms

Translator English - Malay

Kepastian
190 millions of speakers
de

Translator English - German

Gewissheiten
180 millions of speakers
ja

Translator English - Japanese

確実性
130 millions of speakers
ko

Translator English - Korean

확실성
85 millions of speakers
jv

Translator English - Javanese

Kepastian
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

chắc chắn
80 millions of speakers
ta

Translator English - Tamil

நிரந்
75 millions of speakers
mr

Translator English - Marathi

निश्चितता
75 millions of speakers
tr

Translator English - Turkish

kesinlikler
70 millions of speakers
it

Translator English - Italian

certezze
65 millions of speakers
pl

Translator English - Polish

pewniki
50 millions of speakers
uk

Translator English - Ukrainian

безсумнівних
40 millions of speakers
ro

Translator English - Romanian

certitudini
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

βεβαιότητες
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

sekerhede
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

visshet
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

viss
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of certainties

TRENDS

TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «CERTAINTIES»

Principal search tendencies and common uses of certainties
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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about certainties

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10 QUOTES WITH «CERTAINTIES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word certainties.
1
Simone de Beauvoir
I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth - and truth rewarded me.
2
Isaiah Berlin
The very desire for guarantees that our values are eternal and secure in some objective heaven is perhaps only a craving for the certainties of childhood or the absolute values of our primitive past.
3
Nick Clegg
The British political system and the whole clapped out Westminster architecture, and the language that we use about politics, it's completely unsustainable. You either decide to be part of that transition to do something different. Or you cling to old certainties.
4
Charles William Eliot
All business proceeds on beliefs, or judgements of probabilities, and not on certainties.
5
Pam Ferris
The older I get, the less I know. By that I mean the less I am sure of. I view people with strong opinions on the big stuff with distrust. I don't think we should have certain certainties on faith and politics; I think we should be open-minded.
6
Pope Francis
If one has the answers to all the questions - that is the proof that God is not with him. It means that he is a false prophet using religion for himself. The great leaders of the people of God, like Moses, have always left room for doubt. You must leave room for the Lord, not for our certainties; we must be humble.
7
Erich Fromm
Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.
8
Murray Gell-Mann
Sometimes the probabilities are very close to certainties, but they're never really certainties.
9
Steve Hackett
Religion deals in certainties and philosophy deals more in un-answered questions.
10
Vaclav Havel
Isn't it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «CERTAINTIES»

Discover the use of certainties in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to certainties and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Dead Certainties: Unwarranted Speculations
Out of these stories -- with all of their bizarre coincidences and contradictions -- Schama creates a dazzling and supremely vital work of historical imagination.
Simon Schama, 1992
2
Quitting Certainties: A Bayesian Framework Modeling Degrees ...
This is the first unified Bayesian framework capable of accurately modeling rational requirements in cases involving memory loss and context-sensitivity.
Michael G. Titelbaum, 2013
3
Fictive certainties: essays
Fictive Certainties moves toward a definition of the poet's ground in contemporary consciousness.
Robert Duncan, 1985
4
Doubts and Certainties in the Practice of Psychotherapy
A sense of vocation, backed up by years of experience, permeates not only the content of this book, but also its language, which is vivid, personal, and deeply in touch with the inner selves of both her patients and herself.
Josephine Klein, 1995
5
Quitting Certainties: A Doxastic Modeling Framework
This dissertation introduces a new framework for modeling agents' evolving doxastic attitudes over time.
Michael Gaard Titelbaum, 2008
6
No Lost Certainties To Be Recovered: Sexuality, Creativity, ...
"A fitting end-of-century celebration of the true virtues of the psychoanalytic passion." An important book which addresses a wide range of psychoanalytic subjects.
Gregorio Kohon, 1999
7
Certainties and Doubts: Collected Papers, 1962-1985
George Caspar Homans, one of America's leading intellectual figures, presents here his collected papers, covering twenty-three years of work, on the nature of sound theory in social science.
George Caspar Homans, 1987
8
Vanishing certainties: Keith Coventry : painting and ...
Vanishing Certainties explores the breadth and consistency of Keith Coventry's work from the early 1990s to the present.
Keith Coventry, Michael Bracewell, 2009
9
Certainties and doubts: a philosophy of life
The autobiography of Anatol Rapoport--concert pianist, lecturer, mathematician, scientist, philosopher, psychologist, journallist, author, humanitarian.
Anatol Rapoport, 2000
10
Dead Certainties: (Unwarranted Speculations)
Through these incidents, Schama sheds light on the writing of history, the history of history, and the relationship of "story" to "history".
Simon Schama, 2013

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «CERTAINTIES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term certainties is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Women's Black Sticks certainties of qualifying for Rio Olympic Games
Women's Black Sticks certainties of qualifying for Rio Olympic Games. LIAM HYSLOP. Last updated 18:30, July 7 2015. The Black Sticks women can celebrate ... «Stuff.co.nz, Jul 15»
2
Jerry Weintraub: indefatigable champion of old-school and retro film
... the old certainties had disappeared, new and strange forms of cinema had appeared – from the counterculture, from the B-movie ecologies of ... «The Guardian, Jul 15»
3
Game of Thrones: nine predictions for season six
According to Robinson, other near certainties for new characters include more Dothraki and members of a theatre troupe that Arya becomes a ... «The Week UK, Jul 15»
4
New Sporting manager rejects Arsenal interest in £28m midfield star
“William is a certainty. Sporting has young players who are already certainties, not hopes or doubts. William will improve if the team does also,” ... «London24, Jul 15»
5
Imagine what is achievable if more of us left trenches
Mr Burns' decency and of tolerance cuts through the arid certainties of the ideologues from both sides - straining to take offence, to refight a ... «Belfast Telegraph, Jul 15»
6
This warmth won't last: cold snap, wind, rain on the way
WHOEVER said that death and taxes were the only certainties in life forgot to include the third member of the unholy trilogy - miserable weather ... «The Sunshine Coast Daily, Jul 15»
7
Ethiopia after its electoral drama: second “renewal” imminent ? By …
Amongst the few certainties in this sphere: army chief Samora Yunus refused to intervene in Meles Zenawi's succession process, and ... «Abugidainfo, Jul 15»
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Where Is Gold Headed? The Answer Doesn't Lie in Greece
Elliott wave analysis is not about certainties; it is about identifying the most probable market turns in advance, and limiting your risk along the ... «Elliott Wave, Jul 15»
9
Entellus Medical Expands Capacity to Accommodate Growth
These forward-looking statements are based on management's current expectations and involve known and unknown risks and certainties that ... «Nasdaq, Jul 15»
10
Indonesia braces for 'Grexit'
... the JCI might dive to 4,850 this week, and further in the coming week, as investors waited for certainties on Greek debts maturing on July 20. «Jakarta Post, Jul 15»
REFERENCE
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