assumption
/əˈsʌm(p).ʃ(ə)n/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.07 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
9
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
Countable; Uncountable
noun
A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven, celebrated on 15 August.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "His assumption of secretarial duties was timely."
- "Their assumption of his guilt disqualified them from jury duty."
- "No doubt a finite evaluative argument must make some unargued evaluative assumptions, just as finite factual arguments must make some unargued factual assumptions."
- "Of vvhat texte thou proveſt hell / vvill a nother prove purgatory / a nother lymbo patrum / and a nother the aſſumpcion of oure ladi: And a nother ſhall prove of the ſame texte that an Ape hath a tayle."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *h₂éd Proto-Italic *ad Proto-Italic *ad- Latin ad- Proto-Indo-European *upó Proto-Italic *supo Latin sub Latin sub- Proto-Indo-European *h₁em- Proto-Indo-European *-eti Proto-Indo-European *h₁émeti Proto-Italic *emō Latin emō Latin sūmō Latin assūmō Proto-Indo-European *-tis Proto-Indo-European *-Hō Proto-Indo-European *-tiHō Proto-Italic *-tiō Latin -tiō Latin assūmptiōder. Middle English assumpciounder. English assumption From Middle English assumpcioun, from Medieval Latin assūmptiō (“a taking up (into heaven)”) and Latin assūmptiō (“a taking up, adoption, the minor proposition of a syllogism”) (whence -ion), from Latin assūmō (whence as- (“assimilated form of ad-”). See also assume. Doublet of assumptio.