Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The act of asserting.
- n. Something declared or stated positively, often with no support or attempt at proof.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of setting free; liberation.—2. The action of maintaining a cause or a claim: as, the assertion of one's rights.—3. The act of stating something to be true.
- n. A positive declaration or averment; an unsupported statement or affirmation: as, his assertion proved to be false.
- n. Synonyms Vindication, defense, maintenance.3 and Statement, asseveration, protestation.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.
- n. Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.
- n. computing A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.
- n. Maintenance; vindication.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
- n. the act of affirming or asserting or stating something
Etymologies
- Middle French assertion, from Latin assertio (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The latter assertion, however, is a _mere assertion_; necessary, perhaps, for the theory of”
“While tempted, my main assertion is that one must not confuse or conflate the respective purposes of education and employment.”
The Privileged and the Impoverished: Now One and the Same? : Law is Cool
“And the proof of your assertion is the great show of enthusiasm the socialist stock market is making for this Great Leap Forward by pouring its soon to be voided currency of the pre-socialist USA into shares of the soon to be worthless health insurers.”
“Steverino says: leo marvin: And the proof of your assertion is the great show of enthusiasm the socialist stock market is making for this Great Leap Forward by pouring its soon to be voided currency of the pre-socialist USA into shares of the soon to be worthless health insurers.”
“Tim Vaculik says: your assertion is absolutely false and anyone who has read the billunderstands this! pags2 says:”
Think Progress » Gingrich Pledges Government Shutdown If GOP Wins Back House And Senate
“Hidden from the public discourse in this assertion is the fact that the content creators are actually stealing form the public by denying the public full use and enjoyment of their legally bought content.”
“The agenda determines the assertion, the assertion is the truth and only the relevant facts support the assertion.”
“This assertion is actually an accurate attack ON conservatives, rather than a conservative talking point.”
“Please show some examples which proves (or at least suggests) your assertion is accurate.”
“Since the assertion is that science cannot detect the influence, this makes the position entirely compatible with the scientific observation that there's no evidence for God as well as the scientific conclusion that there is no God.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘assertion’.
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
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phil vocab 3
genocide, superfluous, warfare, indissoluble, sentient, confound, pernicious, dispose, render, amiable, paradox, puritanical and 36 more...
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lunamum's list
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glocalism, millenarianism, deficient, rigorous, word, way, discourse, controversial, opponent, warrant, assertion, prescription and 1 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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SAT PSAT ALPHABETICAL A
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 172 more...
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amy's GRE 2012
gimmicks, kowtow, unpretentious, skeptical, cynical, somber, prevaricate, equivocate, requisite, embellish, impregnable, procrastinate and 307 more...
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elij's Words
diegesis, intrinsic, semantic, salience, nonchalant, infosthetics, ambiguous, altruism, cynical, abstruse, vatic, encomium and 137 more...
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Basic Vocaulary
censure, appease, affable, conviction, heretical, mundane, exalted, detached, paradigm, charisma, conformity, allude and 96 more...
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Sat Vocabulary List
abandon, abash, abate, abjure, ablution, abnegate, abominable, aboriginal, abortive, abrade, abridge, abrogate and 2155 more...
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oneasterism's words
Words that I like, that I don't use often enough, that are new to me, that friends and family have taught me, and so on.
lugubrious, reticent, eschelon, missive, penchant, copious, conspicuous, tranquil, redolent, asinine, inane, dilatory and 625 more...
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barfi
turpentine, cognate, connotation, denotation, bias, unflinching, emptive, mob, amnesty, modestly, spear, incline and 150 more...
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Escalation
A meeting of minds and emotions and fists
melee, riot, rumble, brawl, free-for-all, pandemonium, fray, fracas, a row and a ruction, tussle, ruckus, rumpus and 33 more...
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Noun
diversity=variety, assertion, enthusiastic, consistency, hopeful, constellation, disposition, impulsive, domineering, boisterous, extraversion, neuroticism and 3 more...
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