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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun The act of asserting.
  • noun Something declared or stated positively, often with no support or attempt at proof.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun 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.
  • noun A positive declaration or averment; an unsupported statement or affirmation: as, his assertion proved to be false.
  • noun Synonyms Vindication, defense, maintenance.3 and Statement, asseveration, protestation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.
  • noun Maintenance; vindication.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.
  • noun Maintenance; vindication; as, the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives.
  • noun computing A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun a declaration that is made emphatically (as if no supporting evidence were necessary)
  • noun the act of affirming or asserting or stating something

Etymologies

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Middle French assertion, from Latin assertio

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