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Definition: Certitude |
CertitudeNoun1. Total certainty or greater certainty that circumstances warrant. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "certitude" was first used: sometime in the early 15th century. (references) |
Etymology: Certitude \Cer"ti*tude\, noun. [from Late Latin expression certitudo, from the Latin expression certus: compare to the French expression certitude. See Certain.]. (references) |
Synonyms: CertitudeSynonyms: cocksureness (n), overconfidence (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Certainty | Noun: certainty; necessity; surety, assurance; dead certainty, moral certainty; infallibleness; Adjective: infallibility, reliability; indubitableness, inevitableness, unquestionableness. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Certitude |
| Specialty definitions using "certitude": theosophy ♦ Witness of the Spirit ♦ Yesterday. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Certitude" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses. French (certainty, certitude, sureness). |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | The clear certitude of his own immunity grew dim and to it succeeded a vague fear that his soul had really fallen unawares |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | THEOSOPHY, n. An ancient faith having all the certitude of religion and all the mystery of science. The modern Theosophist holds, with the Buddhists, that we live an incalculable number of times on this earth, in as many several bodies, because one life is not long enough for our complete spiritual development; that is, a single lifetime does not suffice for us to become as wise and good as we choose to wish to become. To be absolutely wise and good -- that is perfection; and the Theosophist is so keen-sighted as to have observed that everything desirous of improvement eventually attains perfection. Less competent observers are disposed to except cats, which seem neither wiser nor better than they were last year. The greatest and fattest of recent Theosophists was the late Madame Blavatsky, who had no cat. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Certitude" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Certitude" is used about 23 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 23 | 72,767 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
certitude | 9 |
book cathérine certitude | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "certitude"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | siguri (aplomb, assurance, assuredness, asylum, certainty, confidence, cover, dependability, guaranty, hostage, reliability, reliance, safety, security, sureness, surety, trustiness), bindje e plotë. (various references) | |
Arabic | يقين (certainty, sureness, surety), ثقة (assurance, belief, certainty, confidence, credit, faith, positivism, reliable, reliance, sureness, surety, trust). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | увереност (assurance, certainty, confidence, reassurance, security, sureness, surety, trust), сигурност (assurance, certainty, dependability, poise, reliability, safety, security, soundness, surety). (various references) | |
Chinese | 确信 (Confident). (various references) | |
Czech | jistota (aplomb, assurance, certainty, evidence, snip, sureness, surety). (various references) | |
Farsi | یقین (Certainty, Positive, Sure), اطمینان (Assurance, Certainty, Confidence, Cretain, Persuasion, Security, Surety, Trust), دقت (Accuracy, Attention, Delicacy, Nicety, Precision, Severity). (various references) | |
French | confiance, certitude (certainty), assurance (certainty). (various references) | |
German | sicherheit (aplomb, assurance, caution, certainty, certitudes, collateral, competence, confidence, firmness, guaranty, immunity, reliability, safeness, safety, secureness, security, self-assurance, steadiness, sureness, surety), gewissheit (assuredness, certainty). (various references) | |
Greek | βεβαιότητα (assuredness, certainty, sureness, surety). (various references) | |
Hebrew | ו"אות (certainty, positivity, sureness). (various references) | |
Hungarian | bizonyosság (assurance, certainty, confidence, sureness, surety). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ketentuan (clause, definition, provision). (various references) | |
Italian | certezza (assurance, assuredness, certainty, security, sureness). (various references) | |
Manx | kinjaght (continuity, defineness, invariability), jarrooaght (definiteness). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ertitudecay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | certeza (assurance, assuredness, certain, certainty, confidence, security, surety). (various references) | |
Romanian | convingere (belief, conviction, inducement, opinion, persuasion), certitudine (assurance, assuredness, certainty, resolution, surety). (various references) | |
Russian | уверенность (assuredness, certainty, confidence, security, surefootedness, sureness, surety), несомненность. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | sigurnost (certainty, fastness, safeness, sureness). (various references) | |
Spanish | certidumbre (assuredness, certainty, sureness). (various references) | |
Swedish | visshet (certainty), säkerhet (assurance, certainly, certainty, collateral, cover, deposit, guarantee, guaranty, safeguard, safety, security, surety). (various references) | |
Turkish | kesinlik (accuracy, assuredness, certainty, conclusiveness, decisiveness, definiteness, demonstrativeness, downrightness, exactitude, exactness, finality, firmness, implicitness, nicety, positiveness, preciseness, precision, rigor, rigour, roundness, sureness, surety, the absolute), katiyet (certainty, decisiveness, definiteness, downrightness, exactitude). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | упевненість (assurance, assuredness, certainty, conviction, reliance, security, sureness, surety), неминучість (destiny, imminence, imminency, impendence, infallibility, instancy, necessity, omnipresence), певність (certainty). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | sự tin chắc (assurance), sự chắc chắn (assurance, assuredness, ballast), sự biết đích xác. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Late Latin | 300-700 | certitudo. (various references) |
| Middle French | 1400-1600 | certitude. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "certitude": certitudes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "certitude": incertitude. (additional references) | |
Words containing "certitude": incertitudes. (additional references) | |
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"Certitude" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ceritude, certitudwe, cervitude. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "certitude" (pronounced ser"tutuw'd) |
| 5 | -t u t uw' d | altitude, aptitude, attitude, latitude, exactitude, fortitude, gratitude, ineptitude, multitude, platitude, rectitude. |
| 4 | -u t uw' d | amplitude, longitude, magnitude, servitude, solicitude, solitude, turpitude, verisimilitude. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: rectitude. | |
| Words within the letters "c-d-e-e-i-r-t-t-u" | |
-1 letter: curetted, deuteric. | |
-2 letters: curette, eructed, erudite, eucrite, recited, tierced, uttered. | |
-3 letters: cerite, credit, curite, cutter, deceit, deicer, detect, dieter, direct, recite, reduce, reedit, retied, retted, rutted, tercet, tierce, tiered, triced, truced, ureide, uretic. | |
-4 letters: ceder, cered, cider, cited, citer, creed, cried, crude, cruet, cured, curet, curie, cuter, cutie, deice, deter, deuce, dicer, edict, educe. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-d-e-e-i-r-t-t-u" | |
+1 letter: certitudes, rectitudes. | |
+2 letters: destructive, incertitude, reticulated. | |
+3 letters: correctitude, destructible, incertitudes, recultivated, resuscitated, unrestricted. | |
+4 letters: correctitudes, counterfeited, destructively, rearticulated, recapitulated, reconstituted, trinucleotide. | |
+5 letters: counterpointed, counterstained, deconstructive, hypereutectoid, indestructible, multielectrode, nondestructive, trinucleotides. | |
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