Dictionary Definition
assumption
Noun
1 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" [syn: premise, premiss]
2 a hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any
society is built upon certain assumptions" [syn: supposition, supposal]
3 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"; "he acquired all the
company's assets for ten million dollars and the assumption of the
company's debts" [syn: laying
claim]
4 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
[syn: Assumption
of Mary, August
15]
5 audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you
have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness"
[syn: presumption,
presumptuousness,
effrontery]
6 (Christianity) the taking up of the body and
soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended
7 the act of assuming or taking for granted;
"your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Noun
- The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.
- The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; supposition; unwarrantable claim.
- The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
- The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
- The taking of a person up into heaven.
- A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
Translations
supposition
- Czech: předpoklad
- Portuguese: suposição , pressuposição
thing supposed
- Portuguese: pressuposto , pressuposição
taking of a person up into heaven
- Portuguese:
festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin
Mary into heaven
- Portuguese:
- Dutch: veronderstelling , [1] op zich nemen, [2] aannemen, [3] aanname, [4] het mindere of secundaire voorstel in een categorische syllogie, [5] ten hemel opneming, [6] Mariahemelvaart
Extensive Definition
An assumption is a proposition that is taken
for granted, that is, as if it were known to be true.
Assumption may also refer to:
- In logic, more specifically in the context of natural deduction systems, an assumption is made in the expectation that it will be discharged in due course via a separate argument.
- Assumption reinsurance, a form of reinsurance whereby the reinsurer is substituted for the ceding insurer and becomes directly liable for policy claims
- In real property law, an assumption is the mortgage transfer from the seller to the buyer
- In business planning and business plans, an assumption is an assertion about some characteristic of the future that underlies the current operations or plans of an organization
- Assumption (Poker), a fictional type of Poker game variation, using Tarot cards instead of traditional playing cards. It appears as a primary plot point in the novel "Last Call" by Tim Powers. Fans of the author often play Assumption when at conventions or writing workshops
Concepts:
- Entering
heaven alive
- Assumption of Mary, a religious account of the taking up of Mary into heaven
- Assumption of Moses, a Jewish apocryphal pseudepigraphical work of uncertain date and authorship
- Responsibility assumption, a doctrine in the spirituality and personal growth fields holding that each individual has substantial or total responsibility for the events and circumstances that befall them in their life
Locations:
- Assumption Cathedral
- Assumption, Illinois (USA)
- Assumption Island (Seychelles)
- Assumption, Ohio (USA)
- Assumption Parish (Louisiana, USA)
- L'Assomption River (Quebec, Canada)
Schools:
- Assumption Junior Senior High School, Cold Lake, Alberta
- Assumption High School (Indiana)
- Assumption High School (Davenport, Iowa)
- Assumption High School (Louisville, Kentucky)
- Assumption High School (Louisiana), Napoleonville, Louisiana
- Assumption College, Worcester, Massachusetts
- Assumption Secondary School, Burlington, Ontario
- Assumption College Catholic High School, Windsor, Ontario
- Assumption College School, Windsor, Ontario
- Assumption University, Bangkok, Thailand
- Assumption High School (Wisconsin Rapids, Wisconsin)
assumption in German: Assumption
assumption in French: Assomption
(homonymie)
assumption in Polish: Assumption
(ujednoznacznienie)
assumption in Finnish: Oletus
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
a priori principle, about-face, acceptance, accession, acquisition, admission, admittance, adoption, affirmation, alchemy, allegory, allusion, anointing, anointment, apotheosis, appointment, appropriation, apriorism, arcane meaning,
arrogation, ascension, ascent, aspiration, assertion, assignment, assimilation, assumed
position, assumption,
assurance, assured
faith, attitude,
authorization,
axiom, basis, beatification, becoming, borrowed plumes,
canonization,
categorical proposition, change, change-over, cheerful
expectation, climate of opinion, colonization, coloration, common belief,
community sentiment, conceit, concept, conception, conclusion, confidence, conjecture, connotation, conquest, consecration, consensus
gentium, consideration, conversion, conviction, copying, coronation, data, deification, delegation, dependence, deputation, derivation, deriving, desire, doomed hope, election, elevation, empowerment, encroachment, enshrinement, enslavement, entailment, erection, escalation, estimate, estimation, ethos, exaltation, expectation, eye, fair prospect, faith, familiarity, feeling, fervent hope, first
principles, flip-flop, foundation, fundamental, gathering, general belief,
getting, good cheer,
good hope, great expectations, ground, growth, guess, guesswork, height, high hopes, hint, hope, hopeful prognosis, hopefulness, hopes, hoping, hoping against hope,
hubris, hypothesis, hypothesis ad
hoc, idea, imitation, implication, implied
meaning, import, imposition, impression, indent, inference, infringement, innuendo, insolence, intimation, invasion, involvement, ironic
suggestion, judgment,
lapse, law, lawlessness, legitimate
succession, lemma,
liberties, liberty
abused, license,
licentiousness,
lifting, lights, major premise, meaning, metaphorical sense,
mind, minor premise,
mocking, mystique, naturalization, notion, nuance, observation, occult meaning,
occupation, opinion, overtone, overweening, overweeningness,
passage, pasticcio, pastiche, personal judgment,
philosopheme,
philosophical proposition, pirating, plagiarism, plagiary, playing God, point of
view, popular belief, posit, position, postulate, postulation, postulatum, posture, prayerful hope,
preemption, premise, preoccupation, prepossession, presumption, presumptuousness,
presupposal,
presupposition,
prevailing belief, principle, progress, promise, proposition, propositional
function, prospect,
prospects, public
belief, public opinion, raising, re-formation, reaction, rearing, receipt, receival, receiving, reception, reconversion, reduction, reliance, requisition, resolution, resurrection, reversal, sanguine expectation,
security, seizure, sentiment, set of postulates,
shift, sight, simulation, stance, statement, subjugation, subsense, subsidiary sense,
subsumption,
succession, suggestion, sumption, supposal, supposing, supposition, surmise, sursum corda, switch, switch-over, symbolism, takeover, taking, taking over, the
Ascension, the Assumption, theorem, theory, thesis, thinking, thought, tinge, touch, transformation, transit, transition, translation, trespass, trespassing, trust, truth table,
truth-function, truth-value, turning into, undercurrent, undermeaning, undertone, undue liberty,
upbuoying, upcast, upheaval, uplift, uplifting, upping, uprearing, upthrow, upthrust, usurpation, view, volte-face, way of thinking,
well-grounded hope, working hypothesis