assumption

Noun

• the act of assuming or taking for granted
  • your assumption that I would agree was unwarranted
    

• audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to
  • he despised them for their presumptuousness
    

• (Christianity) the taking up of the body and soul of the Virgin Mary when her earthly life had ended

• 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

• 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
    

• a hypothesis that is taken for granted
  • any society is built upon certain assumptions
    

• 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
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  presumption , presumptuousness , effrontery , Assumption , Assumption of Mary , August 15 , laying claim , supposition , supposal , premise , premiss