moral certainty

1. 1.

   certainty based on an inner conviction

   “she believed in the importance of moral absolutes and moral certainty”

   “the prosecutor had a moral certainty that the prisoner was guilty”

   Broadercertainty

Questions about moral certainty

What does moral certainty mean?

moral certainty means "certainty based on an inner conviction".

Is moral certainty a common word?

moral certainty is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.