assertion
/əˈsəːʃ(ə)n
/noun
1A confident and forceful statement of fact or belief: [with clause]: his assertion that his father had deserted the family...
- He is criticizing the assertion that to weigh more than that is to be obese.
- If not, doesn't this simply verify the assertion that such orders are a joke in this Internet age?
- In practice, there are many venture capitalists who will protest the assertion that all they want is to make a quick buck.
Synonyms
declaration, contention, statement, claim, submission, postulation, averment, opinion, proclamation, announcement, pronouncement, assurance, attestation, affirmation, protestation, profession, swearing, insistence, avowal
rare maintenance, asseveration
1.1 [mass noun] The action of asserting something: the assertion of his legal rights...
- That was a novel and quite astounding assertion at that stage of human legal development.
- At the function that I attended, too, a number of articles spoke of this assertion on their past.
- The events since the last two elections support this assertion, a point to which I will return.
Synonyms
defence, upholding;
insistence on
Origin
Late Middle English: from Latin assertio(n-), from the verb asserere (see assert).