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familiarity
noun. friendliness
  • acquaintance
  • acquaintanceship
  • boldness
  • closeness
  • ease
  • fellowship
  • forwardness
  • freedom
  • freshness
  • friendship
  • informality
  • intimacy
  • liberty
  • naturalness
  • openness
  • presumption
  • sociability
  • unceremoniousness

freedom
noun. easy attitude
  • abandon
  • boldness
  • brazenness
  • candor
  • directness
  • disrespect
  • ease
  • facility
  • familiarity
  • forthrightness
  • forwardness
  • frankness
  • impertinence
  • informality
  • ingenuousness
  • lack of reserve
  • lack of restraint
  • laxity
  • license
  • openness
  • overfamiliarity
  • presumption
  • readiness
  • spontaneity
  • unconstraint

gall
noun. nerve, brashness
  • acrimony
  • animosity
  • arrogance
  • bitterness
  • brass
  • brazenness
  • cheek
  • chutzpah
  • conceit
  • confidence
  • crust cynicism
  • effrontery
  • guts
  • haughtiness
  • hostility
  • impertinence
  • impudence
  • insolence
  • malevolence
  • malice
  • overbearance
  • pomposity
  • presumption
  • rancor
  • sauciness
  • self-importance
  • spite
  • venom

guess
noun. belief, speculation
  • assumption
  • ballpark figure
  • conclusion
  • conjecture
  • deduction
  • divination
  • estimate
  • fancy
  • feeling
  • guesstimate
  • guesswork
  • hunch
  • hypothesis
  • induction
  • inference
  • judgment
  • notion
  • opinion
  • postulate
  • postulation
  • prediction
  • presumption
  • presupposition
  • reckoning
  • shot
  • shot in the dark
  • sneaking suspicion
  • stab
  • supposal
  • supposition
  • surmisal
  • surmise
  • suspicion
  • theory
  • thesis
  • view

hauteur
noun. arrogance
  • airs
  • audacity
  • conceit
  • conceitedness
  • condescension
  • contempt
  • disdain
  • disdainfulness
  • egotism
  • gall
  • haughtiness
  • high-handedness
  • nerve
  • pomposity
  • pompousness
  • presumption
  • pride
  • self-importance
  • snobbishness
  • vanity

hubris
noun. arrogance
  • airs
  • audacity
  • brass
  • cheek
  • chutzpah
  • cockiness
  • conceitedness
  • contemptuousness
  • disdain
  • insolence
  • loftiness
  • nerve
  • ostentation
  • overbearance
  • pomposity
  • pompousness
  • presumption
  • pretension
  • pretentiousness
  • self-importance
  • vanity

impertinence
noun. boldness
  • assurance
  • audacity
  • back talk
  • backchat
  • brazenness
  • cheek
  • chutzpah
  • come-back
  • crust
  • disrespect
  • disrespectfulness
  • effrontery
  • forwardness
  • freshness
  • gall
  • guff
  • hardihood
  • impropriety
  • impudence
  • incivility
  • insolence
  • insolency
  • lip
  • nerve
  • pertness
  • presumption
  • rudeness
  • sass
  • smart mouth
  • wise guy
  • wisecrack

implication
noun. association, suggestion
  • assumption
  • conclusion
  • connection
  • connotation
  • entanglement
  • guess
  • hint
  • hypothesis
  • incrimination
  • indication
  • inference
  • innuendo
  • intimation
  • involvement
  • link
  • meaning
  • overtone
  • presumption
  • ramification
  • reference
  • significance
  • signification
  • undertone
  • union

imposition
noun. burden
  • charge
  • command
  • constraint
  • demand
  • drag
  • duty
  • encroachment
  • encumbrance
  • intrusion
  • levy
  • pain
  • pain in the neck
  • pressure
  • presumption
  • restraint
  • tax
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Word Origin & History

presumption early 13c., "seizure and occupation without right," also "taking upon oneself more than is warranted," from L.L. praesumptionem "confidence, audacity," in classical L., "a taking for granted, anticipation," from praesumere "to take beforehand," from prae "before" + sumere "to take." In English, the meaning "the taking of something for granted" is attested from c.1300. Presumptuous preserves the original sense.

Example Sentences for presumption

To the disgust of the latter, Robert actually had the presumption to walk home with Hester.

What if to her mother the mere idea of having a calling should seem a presumption!

The presumption is that they represent the old sepulchers of the kings of Meroe.

To folly, to pretension, to presumption, he showed but slight forbearance.

Not that I intend to enter the lists with Peter; that would be presumption indeed.

How I could ever have had the presumption I cannot imagine.'

That would be presumption indeed, not to say wilful self-deception.

She may not indeed put on the insolence of pride, and the fool-hardiness of presumption.

When children of Temple women are taught dancing the presumption is all the greater.

We may therefore begin by claiming this presumption in their favour.

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