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re-assurance

re-assurance is the alternative form of reassurance.

Meaning of reassurance

Noun

reassurance (countable and uncountable, plural reassurances)

  1. The feeling of being reassured, of having confidence restored, of having apprehensions dispelled.
    • In 2016, President Barack Obama told his staff that Donald Trump’s election victory was “not the apocalypse”. By any definition, he was correct. But understood in the original sense of the Greek word apokálypsis, meaning “unveiling”, Obama could not give the same reassurance in 2025.2025 January 10, Peter Thiel, “A time for truth and reconciliation”, in Financial Times, archived from the original on 10 Jan 2025
  2. The act of confirming someone's opinion or impression.
    • "The PM’s private reassurances are worthless given her track record of u-turns and her clear desperation to cling to power."2017 June 11, “DUP leader hails 'good progress' with Theresa May”, in The Scotsman, archived from the original on 10 Jul 2025
  3. Reinsurance.

Forms of re-assurance

pluralre-assurances

Questions about re-assurance

What is re-assurance the alternative form of?
Re-assurance is the alternative form of reassurance.

Words near re-assurance in the dictionary

  1. re-assigned
  2. re-associate
  3. re-associated
  4. re-associates
  5. re-associating
  6. re-assurance
  7. re-assurances
  8. re-assure
  9. re-assured
  10. re-assures
  11. re-assuring

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