Assurance

Noun

 * 1) The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; that which is designed to give confidence.
 * 2) The state of being assured; firm persuasion; full confidence or trust; freedom from doubt; certainty.
 * 3) Firmness of mind; undoubting, steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance.
 * 4) Excess of boldness; impudence; audacity; as, his assurance is intolerable.
 * 5) Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. &hand; Recently, assurance has been used, in England, in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited. See Insurance.
 * 6)  Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed. &hand; In England, the legal evidences of the conveyance of property are called the common assurances of the kingdom. Blackstone.
 * 7)  Betrothal; affiance.

Adjectives for Assurance
gracious; positive; easy; lavish; pleasant; solemn; full; happy; sincere; serene; unqualified; mute; respectful; modest; delicate; advance; dispassionate; tender; sufficient; renewed; calm; comforting; blissful; counterfeit; diplomatic; vain; insolent; convincing; serious; limitless; mutual; characteristic; uncomfortable; ineffable; lukewarm; well-founded; disbelieved; inner; loquacious; inspiriting; exquisite; reciprocal.

Verbs for Assurance
move to—; numb with—; paralyze with—; pretend—; quell—; restrain—; seize with—; stagger with—; stupefy—; supersede—.

Synonyms for Assurance
confidence, assertion, boldness, self-reliance, arrogance, self-confidence, effrontery, trust, assumption, presumption.

Antonyms for Assurance
doubt, shyness, distrust, dismay, fear, trepidation, misgiving, timidity, confusion, hesitancy.

Thesaurus
absolute certainty; absoluteness; acceptation; acception; accident insurance; acquiescence; actuary; agreement; aid and comfort; annuity; aplomb; arrogance; ascertainment; aspiration; assumption; assured faith; assuredness; audacity; aviation insurance; avouch; avouchment; avow; bail bond; balance; belief; boldness; bond; brashness; brass; brazenness; bumptiousness; business life insurance; casualty insurance; certain knowledge; certainness; certainty; certificate of insurance; certification; certitude; check; checking; cheek; cheerful expectation; chutzpah; clear sailing; cockiness; cocksureness; collation; comfort; commitment; compact; composure; conceit; condolence; confidence; confidentness; confirmation; consolation; control; contumely; conviction; coolness; courage; court bond; covenant; credence; credit; credit insurance; credit life insurance; credulity; dead certainty; deductible; definiteness; dependence; desire; determinacy; determinateness; determination; doomed hope; easement; effrontery; emboldening; encouragement; endowment insurance; ensuring; equability; equanimity; equilibrium; establishment; expectation; extrajudicial oath; fair prospect; faith; family maintenance policy; fervent hope; fidelity bond; fidelity insurance; flood insurance; fraternal insurance; gall; good cheer; good hope; government insurance; great expectations; guarantee; guaranty; gumption; guts; gutsiness; hardihood; hardiness; harmlessness; health insurance; heartening; high hopes; hope; hopeful prognosis; hopefulness; hopes; hoping; hoping against hope; hubris; immunity; impudence; indemnity; industrial life insurance; ineluctability; inerrability; inerrancy; inevitability; infallibilism; infallibility; insolence; inspiration; inspiriting; inspiritment; insurance; insurance agent; insurance broker; insurance company; insurance man; insurance policy; interinsurance; intrepidity; invulnerability; ironclad oath; judicial oath; level head; levelheadedness; liability insurance; license bond; limited payment insurance; loyalty oath; major medical insurance; malpractice insurance; marine insurance; mutual company; necessity; nerve; nonambiguity; noncontingency; oath; oath of allegiance; oath of office; obtrusiveness; ocean marine insurance; official oath; overconfidence; oversureness; overweening; overweeningness; pact; parole; permit bond; pledge; plight; poise; policy; pomposity; positiveness; possession; prayerful hope; predestination; predetermination; presence of mind; presumption; presumptuousness; pride; probatum; procacity; promise; prospect; prospects; protection; proved fact; pushiness; reassurance; reassurement; reception; reliance; reliance on; relief; resolve; restraint; risklessness; robbery insurance; safeguard; safeness; safety; sangfroid; sanguine expectation; security; self-assurance; self-command; self-conceit; self-confidence; self-control; self-importance; self-possession; self-reliance; self-restraint; settled belief; shred of comfort; social security; solace; solacement; solemn declaration; solemn oath; steadiness; stock; stock company; stocks and bonds; store; subjective certainty; substantiation; support; sureness; surety; suspension of disbelief; sympathy; term insurance; test oath; theft insurance; tie; troth; trust; truth; unambiguity; understanding; underwriter; unequivocalness; univocity; unmistakableness; uppishness; uppityness; validation; vanity; verification; vow; warrant; warranty; well-grounded hope; well-regulated mind; word; word of honor

Etymology
assuraunce:, assurance:, from assurer:; as if.

Translations

 * Bulgarian: уверение
 * Finnish:


 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Bulgarian: увереност,


 * French: assurance


 * Finnish:


 * French: assurance
 * Spanish: certidumbre


 * Bulgarian:
 * Finnish:


 * Spanish: confianza


 * Bulgarian: застраховка
 * Esperanto:


 * Finnish:
 * Ido:


 * Finnish: kauppakirja

Anagrams

 * anacruses

Noun

 * 1) insurance
 * 2) assurance

Related terms

 * assurer
 * assureur