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reliance - 15 thesaurus results
| Main Entry: | reliance |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | confidence |
| Synonyms: | assurance, belief, credence, credit, faith, hope, stock, trust, dependence, interdependence, interdependency |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, independence |
| Main Entry: | credence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trust, acceptance |
| Synonyms: | admission, assurance, belief, certainty, confidence, credit, faith, reliance, stock, store, accepting, admitting, dependence |
| Notes: | something is credible to the extent that it is worthy of belief, so that credibility is worthiness of belief; credence is an acknowledgment of such worthiness |
| Antonyms: | distrust, faithlessness |
| Main Entry: | expectancy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | anticipation |
| Synonyms: | assumption, assurance, belief, calculation, confidence, conjecture, expectation, hope, likelihood, outlook, prediction, presentation, presentiment, presumption, probability, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view, looking forward, waiting |
| Main Entry: | expectation |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, anticipation |
| Synonyms: | apprehension, assumption, assurance, calculation, chance, confidence, conjecture, design, expectancy, fear, forecast, hope, intention, likelihood, motive, notion, outlook, possibility, prediction, presumption, probability, promise, prospect, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspense, trust, view, looking forward |
| Main Entry: | hope |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | longing; dream |
| Synonyms: | Utopia, achievement, ambition, anticipation, aspiration, assumption, belief, bright side, buoyancy, castles in air, concern, confidence, daydream, dependence, desire, endurance, expectancy, expectation, faith, fancy, fool's paradise, fortune, gain, goal, greedy glutton, hopefulness, light at end of tunnel, optimism, pipe dream*, promise, promised land*, prospect, reliance, reverie, reward, rosiness, sanguineness, security, stock, thing with feathers, wish |
| Antonyms: | despair, disbelief, discouragement, hopelessness, pessimism |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | belief |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | putting regard in as true |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, admission, assent, assumption, assurance, avowal, axiom, certainty, conclusion, confidence, conjecture, conviction, credence, credit, deduction, divination, expectation, faith, fancy, feeling, guess, hope, hypothesis, idea, impression, intuition, judgment, knowledge, mind, notion, opinion, persuasion, position, presumption, profession, reliance, supposition, surmise, suspicion, theorem, theory, thesis, thinking, trust, understanding, view, mindset, postulation, presupposition |
| Antonyms: | disbelief |
| Main Entry: | confidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in oneself |
| Synonyms: | aplomb, assurance, backbone, boldness, certainty, cool, courage, daring, dash, determination, firmness, fortitude, grit, hardihood, heart, impudence, mettle, morale, nerve, pluck, poise, presumption, reliance, resolution, self-possession, spirit, spunk, tenacity, brashness, elan, faith in oneself, fearlessness, intrepidity, resoluteness, self-reliance, sureness |
| Antonyms: | uncertainty, unconfidence |
| Main Entry: | conviction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief, opinion |
| Synonyms: | confidence, creed, doctrine, dogma, eye, faith, feeling, mind, persuasion, principle, reliance, sentiment, slant, tenet, view, judgment call, say so |
| Main Entry: | credit |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | recognition; trust |
| Synonyms: | Brownie points*, acclaim, acknowledgment, approval, attention, belief, commendation, confidence, credence, distinction, faith, fame, glory, honor, kudos*, merit, notice, pat on the back, praise, reliance, thanks, tribute, points, strokes |
| Antonyms: | disapproval, disbelief, disclaimer, discredit, dishonor, disregard, disrespect, disacknowledgement |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | faith |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | trust in something |
| Synonyms: | acceptance, allegiance, assent, assurance, belief, certainty, confidence, constancy, conviction, credence, credit, faithfulness, fealty, fidelity, hope, loyalty, reliance, stock, store, surety, troth, truth, truthfulness, certitude, credulity, dependence, sureness |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, distrust, doubt, misgiving, skepticism, suspicion |
| Main Entry: | trust |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in something as true, trustworthy |
| Synonyms: | assurance, certainty, confidence, conviction, credence, credit, expectation, faith, gospel truth*, hope, reliance, stock, store, certitude, dependence, entrustment, positiveness, sureness |
| Antonyms: | disbelief, distrust, mistrust |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | confidence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in something |
| Synonyms: | assurance, credence, faith, hope, reliance, stock, store, trust, dependence, sure bet |
| Antonyms: | apprehension, distrust, doubt, fear, uncertainty, unconfidence |
| Main Entry: | conviction |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guilty sentence; assurance |
| Synonyms: | certainty, condemnation, confidence, earnestness, fall, fervor, firmness, rap, reliance, surety, assuredness, certitude, condemning, determining guilt, sureness, unfavorable verdict |
| Antonyms: | overturning |
| Main Entry: | security |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | peace of mind |
| Synonyms: | assurance, calm, certainty, confidence, conviction, ease, freedom, reliance, soundness, surety, positiveness, sureness |
| Antonyms: | insecurity, uncertainty, worry |
| Main Entry: | stock |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | estimation, faith |
| Synonyms: | appraisal, assessment, confidence, count, estimate, evaluation, figure, hope, inventory, judgment, reliance, review, trust, appraisement, dependence |
| Antonyms: | fact, truth |
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