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assertionnoun a solemn and often public declaration of the truth or existence of somethingthe assertion that all men have certain unalienable rights is set forth in the Declaration of Independence affirmation, asseveration, avouchment, avowal, claim, declaration, insistence, profession, protestation allegationannouncement, proclamation, pronouncementargument, justification, rationalization, reasonconfirmation, reaffirmation, reconfirmation, vindication disavowal disclaimerchallenge, dispute, questionconfutation, disproof, rebuttal, refutationcontradiction, denial, negation an idea or opinion that is put forth in a discussion or debatemade the unlikely assertion that gravity affects light argument, contention, thesis conjecture, guess, hunch, hypothesis, speculation, surmise, theoryproposal, propositionassumption, presupposition, suppositionposition, standcase, explanation, rationale, reason in the 15th century |