moral certainty

Noun

Meaning

certainty based on an inner conviction

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

assurance certitude infallibility inevitableness indubitableness infallibleness moral correctness ethical absolutism for a fact moral reality inner conviction innermost conviction ethical fact ethical truth moral absolutism

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Antonyms

slightly somewhat partly hardly moderately halfway

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Hypernyms

certainty foregone conclusion sure thing

Examples

I have realised from the first that if it could not be proved that social reform (not Socialism) can be financed on a Free Trade line, a return to Protection is a moral certainty. H. H. Asquith

Moral certainty can deafen people to any truth other than their own. Geraldine Brooks

Moral certainty is always a sign of cultural inferiority. The more uncivilized the man, the surer he is that he knows precisely what is right and what is wrong. H. L. Mencken

I would say that without any doubt he's the killer - the law says beyond a reasonable doubt and to a moral certainty which I - there's no question that he was the killer of President Kennedy. Henry Wade

she believed in the importance of moral absolutes and moral certainty Source: Internet

the prosecutor had a moral certainty that the prisoner was guilty Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

moral belief moral beliefs moral burden moral character moral code moral commitment