assertion

English

Etymology

Middle French assertion, from Latin assertio

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /əˈsɜːʃən/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /əˈsɜɹʃən/, [əˈsɝʃn̩]

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  Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)ʃən

Noun

assertion (countable and uncountable, plural assertions)

1. The act of asserting, or that which is asserted; positive declaration or averment; affirmation; statement asserted; position advanced.

   You're a man of strong assertions!

2. A statement or declaration which lacks support or evidence.

   That's just a bare assertion.

3. Maintenance; vindication

   the assertion of one's rights or prerogatives

4. (computing) A statement in a program asserting a condition expected to be true at a particular point, used in debugging.

Synonyms

• accusation
• allegation
• censure
• charge
• crimination
• impeachment

Related terms

• assertoric

Translations

affirmation; statement asserted

• Armenian: please add this translation if you can
• Azerbaijani: iddia (az)
• Bashkir: дәғүә (däğüä)
• Bulgarian: твърде́ние (bg) n (tvǎrdénie)
• Catalan: asserció f, afirmació (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 斷言 (zh), 断言 (zh) (duànyán), 主張 (zh), 主张 (zh) (zhǔzhāng)

• Czech: tvrzení (cs) n
• Dutch: bevestiging (nl)
• Esperanto: aserto
• French: (logic) assertion (fr) f, (rhetoric) confirmation (fr) f, assertion (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Versicherung (de) f, Zusicherung f, Behauptung (de) f, Beteuerung (de) f, Erklärung (de) f, Vorbringen n, Aussage (de) m

• Interlingue: afirmation, afirmation
• Italian: asserzione (it), affermazione (it) f, asserimento m, dichiarazione (it) f
• Japanese: 主張 (ja) (しゅちょう, shuchō)
• Korean: 단정 (ko) (danjeong), 주장 (ko) (jujang)
• Portuguese: asserção (pt) f, assertiva (pt) f, afirmação (pt)
• Romanian: afirmație (ro) f
• Russian: утвержде́ние (ru) n (utverždénije)
• Serbo-Croatian: тврдња f, tvrdnja (sh) f
• Spanish: afirmación (es) f, aserto (es) m
• Tagalog: giitsabi
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Vietnamese: please add this translation if you can

maintenance; vindication; assertion of one's rights

• Bashkir: дәғүә (däğüä)
• French: affirmation (fr) f

• German: Durchsetzung f, Geltendmachung f

References

• “assertion” in the Collins English Dictionary
• assertion at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• Restainos, airstones, arsonites, asterions, notarises, rai stones, reasonist, senoritas, señoritas

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Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.sɛʁ.sjɔ̃/

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Noun

assertion f (plural assertions)

1. assertion