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Synonyms for assumption
əˈsʌmp ʃənas·sump·tion

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English Synonyms and Antonyms1.0 / 2 votes

  1. assumption

    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, assertion, assurance, boldness, confidence, effrontery, impudence, presumption, self-assertion, self-confidence, self-reliance, trust

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

Princeton's WordNet0.0 / 0 votes

  1. premise, premiss, assumptionnoun

    a statement that is assumed to be true and from which a conclusion can be drawn

    "on the assumption that he has been injured we can infer that he will not to play"

    Synonyms:
    supposal, presumptuousness, premiss, premise, effrontery, supposition, laying claim, presumption

  2. assumption, supposition, supposalnoun

    a hypothesis that is taken for granted

    "any society is built upon certain assumptions"

    Synonyms:
    conjecture, supposal, surmisal, hypothesis, presumptuousness, guess, premiss, premise, effrontery, supposition, laying claim, speculation, presumption, surmise

  3. assumption, laying claimnoun

    the act of taking possession of or power over something

    "his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba"; "the Nazi assumption of power in 1934"; "he acquired all the company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the company's debts"

    Synonyms:
    supposal, presumptuousness, premiss, premise, effrontery, supposition, laying claim, presumption

  4. Assumption, Assumption of Mary, August 15noun

    celebration in the Roman Catholic Church of the Virgin Mary's being taken up into heaven when her earthly life ended; corresponds to the Dormition in the Eastern Orthodox Church

    Synonyms:
    supposal, presumptuousness, premiss, premise, effrontery, supposition, laying claim, presumption

  5. Assumptionnoun

    (Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended

    Synonyms:
    supposal, presumptuousness, premiss, premise, effrontery, supposition, laying claim, presumption

  6. presumption, presumptuousness, effrontery, assumptionnoun

    audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to

    "he despised them for their presumptuousness"

    Synonyms:
    precondition, supposal, presumptuousness, given, premiss, premise, effrontery, supposition, laying claim, presumption

  7. assumptionnoun

    the act of assuming or taking for granted

    "your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted"

    Synonyms:
    supposal, presumptuousness, premiss, premise, effrontery, supposition, laying claim, presumption

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How to use assumption in a sentence?

  1. Daniel Webster:

    Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.

  2. Dave Barry:

    In the past decade or so, the women's magazines have taken to running home-handyperson articles suggesting that women can learn to fix things just as well as men. These articles are apparently based on the ludicrous assumption that men know how to fix things, when in fact all they know how to do is look at things in a certain squinty-eyed manner, which they learned in Wood Shop eventually, when enough things in the home are broken, they take a job requiring them to transfer to another home.

  3. Marilyn Ferguson:

    Of all the self-fulfilling prophecies in our culture, the assumption that aging means decline and poor health is probably the deadliest.

  4. Scott Morrison:

    The reports that we are receiving are inconclusive about any link between that arrest and any possible planned event at Gallipoli itself, in fact, to make that assumption would be, I think, making a very big assumption.

  5. Jacob BlakeTerry Rose:

    I guess it's necessary, but I don't like the feeling that this is necessary, i mean, they have 500 troops here. They have the police department and the sheriff's department, they have other agencies. But the assumption that we're going to be firebombed is the wrong assumption.


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  • افتراArabic
  • предположение, успение, приемане, допускане, Успение БогородичноBulgarian
  • předpokladCzech
  • antagelse, himmelfart, optagelse i himlen, formodningDanish
  • Auffahrt, HimmelfahrtGerman
  • asunción, suposiciónSpanish
  • Neitsyt Marian taivaaseen ottamisen päivä, olettamus, oletus, taivaaseenastuminenFinnish
  • supposition, prémisse, hypothèse, propositionFrench
  • foshuíomhIrish
  • asonpsyon, sipozisyonHaitian Creole
  • mennybemenetel, feltevésHungarian
  • assunzioneItalian
  • Mariahemelvaart, veronderstelling, hemelvaart, op zich nemen, aannameDutch
  • wniebowstąpienie, przypuszczeniePolish
  • pressuposição, suposição, pressuposto, assunçãoPortuguese
  • предполо, принятие на себя, посылка, предположениеRussian
  • அனுமானம்Tamil
  • varsayımTurkish

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