Antonyms for assurance
əˈʃʊər əns, -ˈʃɜr-as·sur·ance

English Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:5.0 / 1 vote

1. assurance

   Assurance may have the good sense of a high, sustained confidence and trust; as, the saint's assurance of heaven. Confidence is founded upon reasons; assurance is largely a matter of feeling. In the bad sense, assurance is a vicious courage, with belief of one's ability to outwit or defy others; the hardened criminal is remarkable for habitual assurance. For the calm conviction of one's own rectitude and ability, self-confidence is a better word than assurance; self-reliance expresses confidence in one's own resources, independently of others' aid. In the bad sense assurance is less gross than impudence, which is (according to its etymology) a shameless boldness. Assurance is in act or manner; impudence may be in speech. Effrontery is impudence defiantly displayed. Compare FAITH; PRIDE.

   Antonyms:
   bashfulness, confusion, consternation, dismay, distrust, doubt, doubt, hesitancy, misgiving, shyness, timidity

   Synonyms:
   arrogance, assertion, assumption, boldness, confidence, effrontery, impudence, presumption, self-assertion, self-confidence, self-reliance, trust

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:0.0 / 0 votes

1. assurance

   Antonyms:
   distrust, timidity, bashfulness, misgiving, self-distrust, consternation

   Synonyms:
   arrogance, impudence, boldness, self-confidence, selfreliance, promise, assertion, presumption, effrontery, self-assertion

Matched Categories

1. • Certainty
   • Commitment
   • Insurance
   • Statement

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:3.0 / 2 votes

1. assurance, self-assurance, confidence, self-confidence, authority, surenessnoun

   freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities

   "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"; "after that failure he lost his confidence"; "she spoke with authority"

   Synonyms:
   potency, pledge, sanction, dominance, authorization, trust, self-confidence, say-so, self-assurance, federal agency, agency, bureau, sureness, confidence, government agency, office, authority, authorisation

2. assurance, pledgenoun

   a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something

   "an assurance of help when needed"; "signed a pledge never to reveal the secret"

   Synonyms:
   confidence, self-assurance, self-confidence, authority, pledge, sureness, toast

3. assurancenoun

   a statement intended to inspire confidence

   "the President's assurances were not respected"

   Synonyms:
   self-confidence, self-assurance, authority, confidence, pledge, sureness

4. assurancenoun

   a British term for some kinds of insurance

   Synonyms:
   self-confidence, self-assurance, authority, confidence, pledge, sureness

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1. assurancenoun

   Synonyms:
   surety, promise, confidence, conviction, assuredness, effrontery, audacity, impudence, insurance

How to use assurance in a sentence?

1. British Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond:

   We hope by tomorrow (Friday) we will have in place short-term emergency measures that will provide us with the level of assurance we need to allow flights to go out from the UK empty and bring those people back to the UK.

2. Herbert Butterfield:

   The academic mind can eat away the very basis of its own assurance ... produce contortions when it tries to bend over backward ... allow itself to be dismayed by the picture it has created of relentless historical process.

3. New Testament:

   And the work of righteousness shall be peace and the effect of righteousness quietness and assurance for ever.

4. Orison Swett Marden:

   There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

5. Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, Founder of modern Turkey 24.04.1921:

   A youth with wings are the assurance of our nation's future. We must start to work right away and make progress so that; if one day Westerners leave their footprints on the moon, we shall place a Turkish one among those.

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