assumptive

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She cites a theory called the assumptive world, which suggests that a person has strongly held and grounding assumptions about the world.

From Scientific American • Sep. 15, 2022

I also can't help wishing that "Love, Victor" was bolder in playing with the audience's assumptive gaze.

From Salon • Jun. 17, 2020

Until the jury is fully out on Oakland GM Billy Beane’s latest concoction, Mariners fans are advised to not be so assumptive about a 2018 playoff berth.

From Seattle Times • Jul. 13, 2018

He went on to speak of the 1950s, “Ozzie and Harriet,” when things seemed newer somehow and assumptive of progress.

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 27, 2016

The gaudy trappings of assumptive state Drop at the voice of nature to the earth, Before thy feet—I cannot force myself To hate thee, to renounce thee; yet—Covilla!

From Count Julian by Landor, Walter Savage