- Effrontery - Expectancy - Supposition - The act of presuming, or believing upon probable
evidence; the act of assuming or taking for granted; belief upon
incomplete proof. - Ground for presuming; evidence probable, but not
conclusive; strong probability; reasonable supposition; as, the
presumption is that an event has taken place. - That which is presumed or assumed; that which is
supposed or believed to be real or true, on evidence that is probable
but not conclusive. - The act of venturing beyond due beyond due bounds; an
overstepping of the bounds of reverence, respect, or courtesy; forward,
overconfident, or arrogant opinion or conduct; presumptuousness;
arrogance; effrontery.
- Guess - Guess, conjecture - supposition - A thought, imagination, or conjecture, which is based upon
feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess; as, the surmisses of
jealousy or of envy. - Reflection; thought. - To imagine without certain knowledge; to infer on
slight grounds; to suppose, conjecture, or suspect; to guess.
- Proposition - Supposition - Underlying assumption - A proposition antecedently supposed or proved; something
previously stated or assumed as the basis of further argument; a
condition; a supposition. - Either of the first two propositions of a syllogism, from
which the conclusion is drawn. - Matters previously stated or set forth; esp., that part in
the beginning of a deed, the office of which is to express the grantor
and grantee, and the land or thing granted or conveyed, and all that
precedes the habendum; the thing demised or granted. - A piece of real estate; a building and its adjuncts; as,
to lease premises; to trespass on another's premises.