assumption
noun
[ əˈsʌm(p)ʃ(ə)n ]
• a thing that is accepted as true or as certain to happen, without proof.
• "they made certain assumptions about the market"
Similar:
supposition,
presupposition,
presumption,
premise,
belief,
expectation,
conjecture,
speculation,
surmise,
guess,
theory,
hypothesis,
postulation,
conclusion,
deduction,
inference,
thought,
suspicion,
notion,
impression,
fancy,
guesswork,
guessing,
reckoning,
guesstimate,
• the action of taking on power or responsibility.
• "the assumption of an active role in regional settlements"
Similar:
acceptance,
shouldering,
handling,
managing,
tackling,
taking on,
undertaking,
entering on,
setting about,
embarkation on,
seizure,
seizing,
taking,
taking over,
taking away,
appropriation,
appropriating,
commandeering,
expropriation,
expropriating,
confiscation,
confiscating,
requisition,
requisitioning,
hijack,
hijacking,
wresting,
usurping,
pre-empting,
arrogation,
claiming,
• the reception of the Virgin Mary bodily into heaven. This was formally declared a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church in 1950.
• arrogance or presumption.
Origin:
Middle English (in assumption (sense 3)): from Old French asompsion or Latin assumptio(n- ), from the verb assumere (see assume).
