Antonyms for assumption
əˈsʌmp ʃənas·sump·tion

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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.

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

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

Complete Dictionary of Synonyms and AntonymsRate these synonyms:2.5 / 4 votes

1. assumption

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

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

Matched Categories

1. • Christianity
   • Act
   • Audacity
   • Holy Day Of Obligation
   • Hypothesis
   • Miracle

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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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1. prediction

   Submitted by anonymous on April 2, 2020  

How to use assumption in a sentence?

1. Lisa Damour:

   Parents should work with the assumption that no normally developing teenager wants to be told what to do.

2. Vijay Samant:

   You can't give an optimistic message that the vaccine is going to be developed in December and then come December you don't have a vaccine. Then people are wondering what happened, in the meantime, you know, they have given up social distancing in the assumption that the vaccine going to be developed in six months, and people are taken aback what's going on, they lose confidence.

3. Alice Taylor:

   There’s an assumption ... that child marriage ... happens only in the most remote and rural areas of Brazil. But the research shows it happens also in urban areas and in state capitals, like Belem and Sao Luis.

4. Sharon Morsink:

   In that work, we have to assume that Einsteins theory of gravity is correct, since the data analysis is already very complex, so tests of Einsteins gravity using neutron stars really make me feel better about our assumption that Einsteins theory describes the gravity of a neutron star correctly!

5. Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto:

   I don't think it is a realistic assumption today that Russia would attack any NATO member state.

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