reliance

Meanings

Plural: reliances

Noun

• certainty based on past experience
  • "he wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists"
• the state of relying on something
• The act of relying (on or in someone or something); trust.
• The condition of being reliant or dependent.
• Anything on which to rely; ground of trust.
• A person or thing which relies on another.

Synonyms

trust