confirmation
150
2.0
- noun
- /ˌkɒnfərˈmeɪʃən/
:
confirmación
- It's unsettling, but it's often a confirmation of what you already knew to be true.
- confirmation through testing
- laboratory confirmation
- further confirmation
And some do have this incredible need to get confirmation of what's happening to them.
- And some do have this incredible need to get confirmation of what's happening to them.
- As for his health, we don't have any confirmation of that.
- They've been simulated and all you want to see here is confirmation that the spacecraft behaves as planned.
- So confirmation that Charlotte is Jim Melgren's daughter, right?
- It's unsettling, but it's often a confirmation of what you already knew to be true.
- Today we had another PPI confirmation that inflation is on its way out the door.
- I said Jesus, but it shows that was even more confirmation that I made the right decision.
- Again, one of those kernels of confirmation that's like, you're on the right path, stay the course.
- And for me, that was definitely confirmation that, look, we didn't need a functioning government.
- So just a small, small confirmation bias thing here, NVIDIA.
- Not because the pain I was in by the pain was confirmation of my God.
- If anything, those people can can add extra confirmation, right?
Examples
-
All right, we got satellite confirmation.
-
Comes out confirmation that this is indeed a deal.
-
And some do have this incredible need to get confirmation of what's happening to them.
-
Now there is confirmation that Diana, Princess of Wales has died in that car accident in Paris.
-
Many educators saw this finding as confirmation that it is the teacher who makes the difference.
Academic text (2008) -
Overall, these findings are taken as a general confirmation of the principal trends noted in Experiment 1.
Academic text (1992) -
Today we had another PPI confirmation that inflation is on its way out the door.
-
It is always something of a confirmation of my dreams and good intentions.
-
There you have it, the first confirmation from Sergeant Ramsay of the Runaway Squad.
-
The scientist received confirmation of her theory after publishing her results in a prestigious journal.
Synonyms
∞
1.8
Things that show something is true, like documents or photos
∞
2.5
Evidence that shows something is true
87
4.3
Documents that show proof of a fact or claim
34
3.9
Extra proof that shows something is correct
25
8.5
Evidence that supports a statement, for example documents or witness testimony
8
6.1
Something that supports and confirms an earlier statement or fact
4
7.9
Evidence that shows a claim or idea is true
1
7.9
Official proof, often by signature or witness, that something is true
1
5.8
A clue that does not prove a fact directly but makes it seem likely
Clear and strong information that convinces people it is true
Antonyms
Compounds
- Formal
39
6.8
A meeting where the Senate questions a president's nominee before voting
How Certain
- Literature
202
3.4
∞
2.5
150
2.0
∞
1.8
382
3.9
229
1.5
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Confirmation comes from the Latin confirmare ('to make firm'), the same root as the English word firm. So a confirmation in science or news is information that 'makes' an idea firm or certain.