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Antonyms for assumption
| Grammar : Noun |
| Spell : uh-suhmp-shuh n |
| Phonetic Transcription : əˈsʌmp ʃən |
Definition of assumption
Origin :- c.1300, "the reception, uncorrupted, of the Virgin Mary into Heaven," also the Church festival (Aug. 15) commemorating this, Feast of the Assumption, from Old French assumpcion and directly from Latin assumptionem (nominative assumptio) "a taking, receiving," noun of action from past participle stem of assumere (see assume). Meaning "minor premise of a syllogism" is late 14c. Meaning "appropriation of a right or possession" is mid-15c. Meaning "action of taking for oneself" is recorded from 1580s; that of "something taken for granted" is from 1620s.
- noun taking something for granted; something expected
- noun assuming possession, power
- noun arrogance
- Yet that assumption is at the very basis of modern Christianity.
- Extract from : « The Non-Christian Cross » by John Denham Parsons
- His assumption that his absence had been noticed rather nettled his hearer.
- Extract from : « Roden's Corner » by Henry Seton Merriman
- It is vain, perhaps—preposterous in its assumption—but our sole and only hope.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science, November, 1930 » by Various
- With the assumption that I might be within hearing, De Boer tried to trap me.
- Extract from : « Astounding Stories of Super-Science September 1930 » by Various
- Such an assumption is based on false conception of the psychology of suggestion.
- Extract from : « The Sexual Question » by August Forel
- The whole theory of Lamarck was based on the assumption that this could be done.
- Extract from : « The Meaning of Evolution » by Samuel Christian Schmucker
- “As I said before, it is my affair,” he responded, with an assumption of indifference.
- Extract from : « The Night Riders » by Ridgwell Cullum
- And did we not mean by becoming, and being destroyed, the assumption of being and the loss of being?
- Extract from : « Parmenides » by Plato
- We have to work out all the consequences which follow on the assumption that the one is.
- Extract from : « Parmenides » by Plato
- For the assertion of the permanence of good is only based on the assumption of its objective character.
- Extract from : « Gorgias » by Plato
Synonyms for assumption
- acceptance
- accepting
- acquisition
- adoption
- appropriation
- arrogation
- assuming
- belief
- brass
- chutzpah
- cockiness
- conceit
- conjecture
- embracing
- expectation
- fancy
- grab
- guess
- hunch
- hypothesis
- imperiousness
- inference
- insolence
- nerve
- posit
- postulate
- postulation
- premise
- presumption
- presupposition
- pride
- sass
- seizure
- self-importance
- shot
- shot in the dark
- shouldering
- sneaking suspicion
- stab
- supposal
- supposition
- surmise
- suspicion
- takeover
- taking
- taking on
- taking up
- theorization
- theory
- undertaking
- usurpation
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