assumes
Accepts without proof
Assumes means to take for granted or suppose without proof: The recipe assumes you know basic cooking techniques.
It also means to take on or adopt: assume a role, assume responsibility, assume power.
Someone who assumes a disguise puts it on; someone who assumes an air of confidence adopts that manner.
The word often carries a hint of presumptuousness—to assume is to act on belief rather than certainty.
Trust held as true
- suppositionBelief without proof
- conclusionEnd or deduction
- inferenceConclusion reached through reasoning
- surmiseGuess from incomplete information
conjecture · hypothesis · speculation · theory · guess · expectation · anticipation · trust
Implicit prior assumption
- premiseFoundation for logical argument
- prerequisiteRequired prior condition
- preconditionNecessary prior requirement
- axiomSelf-evident starting principle
postulate · given · foundation · predicate · implication · stipulation · proviso · baseline
Position or part
- identityWho someone is
- personaAssumed public identity
- characterNature, symbol, or role
- guiseExternal manner shown
disguise · mantle · position · title · responsibility · duty · command · control
Pretends to feel
- fakesFraudulent imitations
- simulatesArtificially replicates behavior
- pretendsActs falsely
- affectsProduces change in
poses · masquerades · impersonates · acts · imitates · mimics · dissembles · fabricates
belief
Trust held as true
- suppositionBelief without proof
- conclusionEnd or deduction
- inferenceConclusion reached through reasoning
surmise · conjecture · hypothesis · speculation · theory · guess · expectation · anticipation · trust · confidence
presupposition
Implicit prior assumption
- premiseFoundation for logical argument
- prerequisiteRequired prior condition
- preconditionNecessary prior requirement
axiom · postulate · given · foundation · predicate · implication · stipulation · proviso · baseline · underlying
role
Position or part
guise · disguise · mantle · position · title · responsibility · duty · command · control · authority
feigns
Pretends to feel
affects · poses · masquerades · impersonates · acts · imitates · mimics · dissembles · fabricates · bluffs
assumesrelinquishes
Voluntarily gives up control
abandons · surrenders · renounces · abdicates · gives up
assumesverifies
Confirms as accurate
confirms · proves · establishes · demonstrates · knows
- I assumePhrase preceding unverified belief
- assuming thatTreating as true for argument
- assumed nameAdopted false identity
- assume controlBegin governing or directing
- false assumptionIncorrect foundational belief
- assumed identityFabricated personal guise
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