assurance
- noun
- /əˈʃʊərəns/
- Having practiced for weeks, she entered the competition with complete assurance in her skills.
- self-assurance
- move with assurance
- levels of self-assurance
And you will put, you will project a sense of calm and assurance.
- And you will put, you will project a sense of calm and assurance.
- Adam shook his head and uttered with calm assurance.
- His self assurance was gone, His face was flushed, his voice shook.
- You can have more assurance around this.
- So we have recollection, assurance, secondary reflection connected together.
- Look at the smug self like assurance.
- And because this self assurance is at the same time an immediacy, conscience exists.
Examples
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Katherine froze, hurt at being dismissed so casually, hurt by the assurance with which the intruder spoke.
Fiction book (1991) -
One you feel yourself awakening now, filled with energy and self assurance.
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You can have more assurance around this.
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Mostly the assurance that we're still here.
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So that assurance makes me feel great, and I'm real happy for it.
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But we are making sure that that's done in a way that can provide assurance to people with concerns in that area.
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And you've talked about giving yourself the assurance and the kind of love and comfort that you need.
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To survive as individuals, the members needed assurance that their suffering was not meaningless.
Academic text (1995) -
Apparently, those who most influenced her respected her self-assurance and her intelligence and thus had confidence in her.
Fiction book (1996) -
Sustain them in the blessed assurance that death is conquered, the new life is begun.
Synonyms
A belief that you can do something well
Trust in your own skills and worth
Confidence and calm when you are under pressure
Confidence in your own ability to do things and make choices
A feeling that something is true or will happen
A feeling of confidence and calm in difficult situations
A feeling of confidence and certainty without doubt
Antonyms
Compounds
How Confident
- Literature
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Assurance comes from an old word that meant 'to make safe' and is related to secure and sure. So, to have assurance is to feel 'sure' and confident in your own skills.