The Collaborative International Dictionary
Assuredness \As*sur"ed*ness\, n. The state of being assured; certainty; full confidence.
Wiktionary
n. The state or quality of being assured.
WordNet
n. great coolness and composure under strain; "keep your cool" [syn: aplomb, cool, poise, sang-froid]
Usage examples of "assuredness".
As the crowd between them thinned, his gaze swept the length of her with the assuredness of a man used to his attention being reciprocated.
Only then can his actions have the necessary assuredness to fortify and balance the tenuousness and instability of his new continuity.
That new continuity is always too tenuous, too unstable, and does not offer sorcerers the assuredness they need to function as if they were in the world of everyday life.
Words ticked out with the smooth assuredness of a paid political announcement.
But what is certain is that people have been moving around with considerable assuredness for longer than traditionally thought, and almost certainly sharing genes as well as information.
I could not stand his dogmatic assuredness about issues in my own life that I was not sure of myself.
The fat man smiled back at me with the smug assuredness of the righteous.
He should never have been deceived, and yet there was about her still the aura that Helen had, the assuredness of beauty beyond compare, the secret knowledge that all the world had gone to war because of her.
The Collectivist who drove it on his suicide mission, brave with drink and the assuredness of death, had rammed the blockade at Sly Station and powered on toward Spit Bazaar, but the militia had detonated the train as it approached, tearing a hole in the stitching of arches that went the length of New Crobuzon.
That new continuity is always too tenuous, too unstable, and does not offer sorcerers the assuredness they need to function as if they were in the world of everyday life.
But what is certain is that people have been moving around with considerable assuredness for longer than traditionally thought, and almost certainly sharing genes as well as information.
I could not stand his dogmatic assuredness about issues in my own life that I was not sure of myself.
The fat man smiled back at me with the smug assuredness of the righteous.
He should never have been deceived, and yet there was about her still the aura that Helen had, the assuredness of beauty beyond compare, the secret knowledge that all the world had gone to war because of her.
The midway stage, the falter, between the assuredness of companionability and the assuredness of openly declared love.