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assurance

assurance

33 3.3
A feeling of confidence in your own abilities
  • noun
  • /əˈʃʊərəns/
translation icon : seguridad en sí mismo
  • 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.

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Examples

  • 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.

  • You can have more assurance around this.

  • Mostly the assurance that we're still here.

  • So that assurance makes me feel great, and I'm real happy for it.

  • But we are making sure that that's done in a way that can provide assurance to people with concerns in that area.

  • And you've talked about giving yourself the assurance and the kind of love and comfort that you need.

  • 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

confidence
vsassurance
456 2.1

A belief that you can do something well

is more about general certainty and steady self-reliance
self-confidence
vsassurance
49 3.5

Trust in your own skills and worth

stresses overall certainty and self-reliance rather than worth focus
aplomb
vsassurance
8 8.2

Confidence and calm when you are under pressure

is about internal certainty and personal self-reliance rather than outward composure
self-assurance
vsassurance
4 3.5

Confidence in your own ability to do things and make choices

is broader emphasising steady self-reliance and general certainty
surety
vsassurance
3 6.6

A feeling that something is true or will happen

focuses on personal certainty and self-reliance rather than external proof
assuredness
vsassurance
1 6.1

A feeling of confidence and calm in difficult situations

is broader focusing on steady certainty and personal self-reliance
sureness
vsassurance
1 3.6

A feeling of confidence and certainty without doubt

is more about inner certainty tied to self belief and reliance

Antonyms

1.6

A feeling of not being sure about something

93 3.7

A feeling of not being sure about yourself or what you can do

Compounds

A plan that pays money to people you choose after you die

How Confident

certainty
  • Literature
202 3.4
assurance
33 3.3
confidence
456 2.1
conviction
258 4.5

Surface Forms

assurance singular
assurances plural

Morphology

assurance = assure (transparent) = assure + ance

Derived directly from the verb 'assure' with the nominalizing suffix '-ance', so learners who know 'assure' can infer this sense as the state or quality of being assured.

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.