Sureness

Definition: Sureness

Sureness

Noun

1. Freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities; "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "she spoke with authority".

2. The quality of being steady and unfailing; "sureness of hand".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "sureness" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1385. (references)

Synonyms: Sureness

Crosswords: Sureness

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

siguri (aplomb, assurance, assuredness, asylum, certainty, certitude, confidence, cover, dependability, guaranty, hostage, reliability, reliance, safety, security, surety, trustiness). (various references)

Arabic 

‏يقين (certainty, certitude, surety), ‏حتمية, ‏تأكد (make certain, make sure), ‏ثقة (assurance, belief, certainty, certitude, confidence, credit, faith, positivism, reliable, reliance, surety, trust), ‏دقة (accuracy, closeness, delicacy, exactitude, exactness, fidelity, fineness, finesse, fussiness, nicety, preciseness, precision, promptitude, punctuality, refinement, reliability, rigor, rigour, strictness, subtlety, tenuity, thoroughness, veracity). (various references)

Bulgarian 

увереност (assurance, certainty, certitude, confidence, reassurance, security, surety, trust). (various references)

Czech

spolehlivost (dependability, reliability, solidity, steadiness, trustiness), zaruèenost, jistota (aplomb, assurance, certainty, certitude, evidence, snip, surety). (various references)

Finnish

varmuus (assurance, certainty, safety, security). (various references)

French

assurance. (various references)

German

sicherheit (aplomb, assurance, caution, certainty, certitude, certitudes, collateral, competence, confidence, firmness, guaranty, immunity, reliability, safeness, safety, secureness, security, self-assurance, steadiness, surety), zuverlässigkeit (credibleness, creditableness, dependability, reliability, safeness, soundness, steadiness, tenacity, trustiness, trustworthiness), verlässlichkeit (dependability, reliability, soundness, tenacity), untrüglichkeit, Gewißheit (assuredness, certainty, certitude), überzeugung (belief, certainty, conviction, convincing, persuasion, positiviness, staunchness). (various references)

Greek 

βεβαιότησ (assuredness), βεβαιότητα (assuredness, certainty, certitude, surety). (various references)

Hebrew 

ו�"אות (certainty, certitude, positivity). (various references)

Hungarian

biztosság (assuredness, surety), bizonyosság (assurance, certainty, certitude, confidence, surety). (various references)

Indonesian

kepastian (certainty). (various references)

Italian

certezza (assurance, assuredness, certainty, certitude, security). (various references)

Manx

shickyrys (assurance, certainty, conviction, security, stability, steadfastness, validity). (various references)

Pig Latin

urenesssay.(various references)

Russian 

уверенность (assuredness, certainty, certitude, confidence, security, surefootedness, surety). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

sigurnost (certainty, certitude, fastness, safeness), pouzdanost (assertiveness, dependability, reliability, surety, trustiness, trustworthiness). (various references)

Spanish

seguridad (assurance, assuredness, certain, certainty, certitude, collateral, confirmation, irradiation, reliability, safeness, safety, security), lo certero, firmeza (buoyancy, fastness, firmness, soundness, steadiness, sturdiness), certidumbre (assuredness, certainty, certitude), certeza (assurance, assuredness, certainty, determinateness, determination, surety). (various references)

Turkish

kesinlik (accuracy, assuredness, certainty, certitude, conclusiveness, decisiveness, definiteness, demonstrativeness, downrightness, exactitude, exactness, finality, firmness, implicitness, nicety, positiveness, preciseness, precision, rigor, rigour, roundness, surety, the absolute), güven (affiance, assurance, belief, confidence, credence, credit, dependance, dependence, faith, positiveness, reliance, trust), emin olma. (various references)

Ukrainian

упевненість (assurance, assuredness, certainty, certitude, conviction, reliance, security, surety), надійність (reliability, solidity, trustiness), безсумнівність (easiness), безпомилковість (infallibility). (various references)

Vietnamese 

tính chắc chắn (consistence, staidness, unfailingness, unquestionableness). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "sureness": surenesses. (additional references)

Words ending with "sureness": cocksureness. (additional references)

Words containing "sureness": cocksurenesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Sureness" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Psusennes, serenos, sureen. (additional references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ensures.

-2 letters: ensues, ensure, enures, nesses, nurses, reuses, senses, sneers.

-3 letters: ensue, enure, ernes, erses, esses, nurse, reuse, runes, ruses, seers, sense, seres, sneer, suers, users.

-4 letters: erne, erns, eses, ness, rees, rues, rune, runs, ruse, seen, seer, sees, sene, sere, sers, suer, sues, suns, sure, suss, urns, user, uses.

-5 letters: ens, ere, ern, ers.

+1 letter: suspenser, undresses.

+2 letters: anestruses, cursedness, curtnesses, dournesses, enuresises, huntresses, purenesses, rudenesses, secureness, sournesses, spruceness, squareness, sundresses, sunscreens, sunseekers, superbness, surenesses, suspenders, suspensers, truenesses, unstressed, unstresses.

+3 letters: assuredness, austereness, brusqueness, burlinesses, crudenesses, cruelnesses, curlinesses, cursiveness, gruffnesses, hirsuteness, laundresses, luridnesses, murkinesses, nervousness, obscureness, onerousness, profuseness, pursinesses, queernesses, restfulness, roughnesses, roundnesses, ruddinesses, runtinesses, rustinesses, seriousness, supremeness, surlinesses, underbosses, underpasses, unharnesses.