📖 assumption

noun

1. the act of taking possession of or power over something“his assumption of office coincided with the trouble in Cuba”
2. the act of assuming or taking for granted“your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted”
3. audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to“he despised them for their presumptuousness”
4. a hypothesis that is taken for granted“any society is built upon certain assumptions”

See also: laying claimeffronterypresumptionpresumptuousnesssupposalsupposition

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