noun
1. an inevitable ending
• Syn: ↑matter of course
• Hypernyms: ↑ending, ↑conclusion, ↑finish
2. something that is certain
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his victory is a certainty
• Syn: ↑certainty, ↑sure thing
• Ant: ↑uncertainty (for: ↑certainty)
• Hypernyms: ↑quality
• Hyponyms:
↑cert, ↑ineluctability, ↑unavoidability, ↑inevitability, ↑inevitableness, ↑surety, ↑indisputability, ↑indubitability, ↑unquestionability, ↑unquestionableness, ↑moral certainty, ↑predictability, ↑slam dunk
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foregone conclusion,
1. a safe assumption about some future event: »
It is a foregone conclusion that the one good student in the class will win the prize.
2. an inevitable result.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.