Synonyms of the word

assumption

• n. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.
• n. The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
• n. The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
• n. (logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
• n. The taking of a person up into heaven.
• n. A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
• n. (rhetoric) Assumptio.

acquisition

• n. The act or process of acquiring.
• n. The thing acquired or gained; a gain.
• n. (computing) The process of sampling signals that measure real world physical conditions and converting…

act

• n. (countable) Something done, a deed.
• n. (obsolete, uncountable) Actuality.
• n. (countable) A product of a legislative body, a statute.
• n. The process of doing something.
• n. (countable) A formal or official record of something done.
• n. (countable) A division of a theatrical performance.
• n. (countable) A performer or performers in a show.
• n. (countable) Any organized activity.
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour.
• n. A thesis maintained in public, in some English universities, by a candidate for a degree, or to show the…
• n. (countable) A display of behaviour meant to deceive.
• v. (intransitive) To do something.
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To do (something); to perform.
• v. (intransitive) To perform a theatrical role.
• v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way.
• v. (copulative) To convey an appearance of being.
• v. To do something that causes a change binding on the doer.
• v. (intransitive, construed with on or upon) To have an effect (on).
• v. (transitive) To play (a role).
• v. (transitive) To feign.
• v. (mathematics, intransitive, construed with on or upon, of a group) To map via a homomorphism to a group…
• v. (obsolete, transitive) To move to action; to actuate; to animate.

audaciousness

• n. Risky or daring behaviour.
• n. impudence.

audacity

• n. Insolent boldness, especially when imprudent or unconventional.
• n. Fearlessness, intrepid or daring, especially with confident disregard for personal safety, conventional…

effrontery

• n. (uncountable) Insolent and shameless audacity.
• n. (countable) An act of insolent and shameless audacity.

hypothesis

• n. (sciences) Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem…
• n. (general) An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.
• n. (grammar) The antecedent of a conditional statement.

miracle

• n. An event that appears inexplicable by the laws of nature and so is held to be supernatural in origin.
• n. A fortunate outcome that prevails despite overwhelming odds against it.
• n. An awesome and exceptional example of something.
• v. (transitive) To affect by a miracle; to work a miracle upon.

posit

• n. Something that is posited; a postulate.
• n. (aviation) Abbreviation of position.
• v. Assume the existence of; to postulate.
• v. Propose for consideration or study; to suggest.
• v. Put (something somewhere) firmly.

possibility

• n. The quality of being possible.
• n. A thing possible; that which may take place or come into being.
• n. An option or choice, usually used in context with future events.

postulate

• n. Something assumed without proof as being self-evident or generally accepted, especially when used as a…
• n. A fundamental element; a basic principle.
• n. (logic) An axiom.
• n. A requirement; a prerequisite.
• adj. Postulated.
• v. To assume as a truthful or accurate premise or axiom, especially as a basis of an argument.
• v. (transitive, intransitive, Christianity, historical) To appoint or request one's appointment to an ecclesiastical…
• v. (transitive, intransitive, obsolete) To request, demand or claim for oneself.

premise

• n. A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something previously stated or assumed as the basis of…
• n. (logic) Any of the first propositions of a syllogism, from which the conclusion is deduced.
• n. (usually in the plural, law) Matters previously stated or set forth; especially, that part in the beginning…
• n. (usually in the plural) A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts.
• n. The fundamental concept that drives the plot of a film or other story.
• v. To state or assume something as a proposition to an argument.
• v. To make a premise.
• v. To set forth beforehand, or as introductory to the main subject; to offer previously, as something to…
• v. To send before the time, or beforehand; hence, to cause to be before something else; to employ previously.

premiss

• n. Alternative spelling of premise.
• v. Alternative spelling of premise.

presumption

• n. the act of presuming, or something presumed.
• n. the belief of something based upon reasonable evidence, or upon something known to be true.
• n. the condition upon which something is presumed.
• n. (dated) arrogant behaviour; the act of venturing beyond due bounds of reverence or respect.

presumptuousness

• n. The state of being presumptuous.

supposal

• n. The act of supposing.
• n. That which is supposed; supposition; opinion.

supposition

• n. Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture.
• n. The act or an instance of supposing.

theory

• n. (obsolete) Mental conception; reflection, consideration.
• n. (sciences) A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena, or which sets…
• n. (uncountable) The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to…
• n. (mathematics) A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs.
• n. A hypothesis or conjecture.
• n. (countable, logic) A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them. Equivalently, a formal…