English Dictionary

ASSERTION

Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

IPA (US): 

 Dictionary entry overview: What does assertion mean? 

ASSERTION (noun)
  The noun ASSERTION has 2 senses:

1. a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)play

2. the act of affirming or asserting or stating somethingplay

  Familiarity information: ASSERTION used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


ASSERTION (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

assertion; asseveration; averment

Hypernyms ("assertion" is a kind of...):

declaration (a statement that is emphatic and explicit (spoken or written))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "assertion"):

claim (an assertion of a right (as to money or property))

claim (an assertion that something is true or factual)

accusation; charge (an assertion that someone is guilty of a fault or offence)

contention (a point asserted as part of an argument)

ipse dixit; ipsedixitism (an unsupported dogmatic assertion)

affirmation; avouchment; avowal (a statement asserting the existence or the truth of something)

testimony (an assertion offering firsthand authentication of a fact)

denial; disaffirmation (the act of asserting that something alleged is not true)

Derivation:

assert (state categorically)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The act of affirming or asserting or stating something

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

affirmation; assertion; statement

Hypernyms ("assertion" is a kind of...):

speech act (the use of language to perform some act)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "assertion"):

say-so (one chap's arbitrary assertion)

Derivation:

assert (postulate positively and assertively)

assert (to declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true)


 Context examples 


You may well be surprised, Miss Bennet, at such an assertion, after seeing, as you probably might, the very cold manner of our meeting yesterday.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

The garment itself did not bear out the assertion, nor did the accumulations of grease on stove and pot and pan attest a general cleanliness.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I shuddered to hear the infatuated assertion.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

It would not be fair; and yet you ought to have proof, for what is all this but assertion, and you shall have proof.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

"I must in turn ask you, Mr. Waldron," he said, "to cease to make assertions which are not in strict accordance with scientific fact."

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If his sweet-tempered wife could have got up any self-assertion against anyone, I am satisfied it could only have been because she was the Beauty's sister.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

They are, however, I am told, very harmless and rather wanting in natural self-assertion.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

It was most convenient to Emma not to make a direct reply to this assertion; she chose rather to take up her own line of the subject again.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

"How can you say so, Anne?" cried Lucy, who generally made an amendment to all her sister's assertions.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

Upon this occasion my father said, with an expression of unbounded wonder, “My dearest Victor, what infatuation is this? My dear son, I entreat you never to make such an assertion again.”

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)



 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"All hat and no cattle." (English proverb)

"Five fingers are brothers, not equals." (Afghanistan proverb)

"With carefulness you realize your opportunity." (Arabic proverb)

"If a caged bird isn't singing for love, it's singing in a rage." (Corsican proverb)



ALSO IN ENGLISH DICTIONARY:


© 2000-2023 AudioEnglish.org | AudioEnglish® is a Registered Trademark | Terms of use and privacy policy
Contact