Dictionary Entry
assumption
assumption is a 10-letter English word with 13 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting. Face value is 14 in Scrabble and 18 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
10 letters · Scrabble 14 · Words With Friends 18 · 13 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.
- 2noun
The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim.
- 3noun
The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
- 4noun
The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
- 5noun
The taking of a person up into heaven.
- 6noun
A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
- 7noun
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"
- 8noun
the act of assuming or taking for granted
"your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted"
- 9noun
audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
"he despised them for their presumptuousness"
Synonyms
- 10noun
a hypothesis that is taken for granted
"any society is built upon certain assumptions"
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- 11noun
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"
- 12noun
(Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended
- 13noun
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
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