'Assumption' definitions:
Definition of 'assumption'
From: WordNet
noun
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, assumption]
noun
A hypothesis that is taken for granted; "any society is built upon certain assumptions" [syn: assumption, supposition, supposal]
noun
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: assumption, laying claim]
noun
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, Assumption of Mary, August 15]
noun
(Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended
noun
Audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to; "he despised them for their presumptuousness" [syn: presumption, presumptuousness, effrontery, assumption]
noun
The act of assuming or taking for granted; "your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted"
Synonyms of 'assumption'
From: Moby 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
Assumption, IL -- U.S. city in Illinois
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Assumption, IL -- U.S. city in Illinois
Population (2000) :
1261
Housing Units (2000) :
607
Land area (2000) :
0.879889 sq. miles (2.278902 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
0.879889 sq. miles (2.278902 sq. km)
FIPS code :
02609
Located within :
Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location :
39.519545 N, 89.049129 W
ZIP Codes (1990) :
62510
Note :
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Assumption -- U.S. Parish in Louisiana
From: Gazetteer 2000
Name :
Assumption -- U.S. Parish in Louisiana
Population (2000) :
23388
Housing Units (2000) :
9635
Land area (2000) :
338.681886 sq. miles (877.182021 sq. km)
Water area (2000) :
25.871397 sq. miles (67.006609 sq. km)
Total area (2000) :
364.553283 sq. miles (944.188630 sq. km)
Located within :
Louisiana (LA), FIPS 22
Location :
29.926900 N, 91.054794 W