REASSURANCE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does reassurance mean? 

• REASSURANCE (noun)
  The noun REASSURANCE has 1 sense:

1. the act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence

  Familiarity information: REASSURANCE used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• REASSURANCE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence

Classified under:

Nouns denoting acts or actions

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

support (aiding the cause or policy or interests of)

Attribute:

reassuring (restoring confidence and relieving anxiety)

unreassuring; worrisome (not reassuring; tending to cause anxiety)

Derivation:

reassure (give or restore confidence in; cause to feel sure or certain)

reassure (cause to feel sure; give reassurance to)

 Context examples 

He glanced at Ruth for reassurance, much in the same manner that a passenger, with sudden panic thought of possible shipwreck, will strive to locate the life preservers.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

A word of encouragement and explanation, of pity for my childish ignorance, of welcome home, of reassurance to me that it was home, might have made me dutiful to him in my heart henceforth, instead of in my hypocritical outside, and might have made me respect instead of hate him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)