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Noun certainty has 2 senses

certainty - the state of being certain; "his certainty reassured the others"
--₁ is a kind of cognitive state, state of mind
Antonyms: doubt, uncertainty, incertitude, dubiety, doubtfulness, dubiousness
--₁ has particulars:
assurance, self-assurance, confidence, self-confidence, authority, sureness; certitude, cocksureness, overconfidence; reliance, trust
certainty, sure thing, foregone conclusion - something that is certain; "his victory is a certainty"
--₂ is a kind of quality
Antonyms: uncertainty, uncertainness
--₂ has particulars:
cert; ineluctability, unavoidability; inevitability, inevitableness; surety; indisputability, indubitability, unquestionability, unquestionableness; predictability; slam dunk