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Synonyms for assertion
əˈsɜr ʃənas·ser·tion
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English Synonyms and Antonyms
assertion
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.
Synonyms:
arrogance, assumption, assurance, boldness, confidence, effrontery, impudence, presumption, self-assertion, self-confidence, self-reliance, trustAntonyms:
bashfulness, confusion, consternation, dismay, distrust, doubt, doubt, hesitancy, misgiving, shyness, timidity
Princeton's WordNet
assertion, averment, asseverationnoun
a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
Synonyms:
averment, affirmation, statement, asseverationaffirmation, assertion, statementnoun
the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
Synonyms:
argument, statement, command, averment, program line, avowal, asseveration, financial statement, avouchment, instruction, affirmation
Matched Categories
Dictionary of English Synonymes
assertionnoun
Synonyms:
affirmation, declaration, asseveration, protestation, position, statement, word, averment, predication, remarkassertionnoun
Synonyms:
vindication, defence, maintenance, support
Synonyms, Antonyms & Associated Words
assertionnoun
Synonyms:
affirmation, statement, declaration, averment
PPDB, the paraphrase database
List of paraphrases for "assertion":
affirmation, contention, claim, statement, allegation, proposition, reaffirmation, argument
Words popularity by usage frequency
ranking | word | |
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#795 | statement | |
#1362 | command | |
#1495 | trust | |
#2022 | claim | |
#2077 | argument | |
#3075 | instruction | |
#3355 | confidence | |
#5434 | assurance | |
#7150 | assumption | |
#8738 | proposition | |
#14050 | assertion | |
#17032 | contention | |
#20482 | presumption | |
#22717 | allegation | |
#25023 | arrogance | |
#25989 | affirmation | |
#51703 | boldness | |
#78616 | reaffirmation | |
#120619 | impudence | |
#186036 | effrontery | |
#192596 | avowal | |
#258079 | averment |
How to use assertion in a sentence?
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it cant be taken on its own merits.
Dan Barker, "Losing Faith in Faith", 1992:
Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can't be taken on its own merits.
There are two insults no human will endure. The assertion that he has no sense of humor and the doubly impertinent assertion that he has never known trouble.
It is the unsubstantiated assertion that these products contribute to increased volatility in the financial markets because they must rebalance their portfolios in the same direction as the contemporaneous return on the underlying assets in order to maintain a constant leverage ratio.
Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson:
I regret that Chairman Chaffetz and his staff have taken the unprecedented and unnecessary step of subpoenaing two members of the U.S. Secret Service with the responsibility for the protection of the president, his family and the White House complex, chairman Chaffetz's assertion that this department has been 'uncooperative' is simply wrong.
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