assurance

Meanings

Plural: assurances

Noun

• freedom from doubt; belief in yourself and your abilities
  • "his assurance in his superiority did not make him popular"
• a binding commitment to do or give or refrain from something
  • "an assurance of help when needed"
• a statement intended to inspire confidence
  • "the President's assurances were not respected"
• a British term for some kinds of insurance
• The act of assuring; a declaration intended to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence to someone.
• The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty; guarantee.
• Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity, courage, or self-confidence.
• Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity
• Betrothal; affiance.
• Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. Assurance is used in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited.
• Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed.
• Subjective certainty of one's salvation.

Synonyms

authority, confidence, pledge, self-assurance, self-confidence, sureness