Assumption

Noun

 * 1) The act of assuming, or taking to or upon one's self; the act of taking up or adopting.
 * 2) The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
 * 3) The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
 * 4)  The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
 * 5) The taking of a person up into heaven.
 * 6) A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
 * 7)  Assumptio.

Adjectives for Assumption
tacit; boastful; supercilious; theatrical;  sweeping; charitable; playful; irritating;  erroneous; verbal; gratuitous; transparent;  whimsical; preposterous; groundless; natural; complacent; calm; wearied; unparallelled; fallacious; unwarranted; commonplace; absurd; precarious; mute;  hereditary; bland; smug; ungracious; critical; baseless; plausible; traditional; fundamental; reckless; false; imperturbable; candid; gross; placid; random; shallow; unconcealed; fatuous; humorous; vicious; un¬proved; undue; gentlemanly;  unpardonable;  arrogant; innocent.

Verbs for Assumption
accept—; adopt—; anticipate—; contest—;grant—; guide by—; lay bare—; limit—;pardon—; predicate upon—; proceed upon—; steer clear of—; sustain—; take up—;throw out—; verify—; warrant—; weigh—; —holds; —implies; —leads.

Thesaurus
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

Related terms

 * assume
 * assumptive