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reassurance

reassurance noun: the feeling of being reassured, of having confidence restored, of having apprehensions dispelled.

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.

reassurance meaning in Urdu, Gujarati, Odia and Nepali

reassurance in Urdu

یقین دہانی

reassurance in Gujarati

આશ્વાસન

reassurance in Odia

ଆଶ୍ୱସ୍ତି

reassurance in Nepali

आश्वस्तता

Examples of reassurance in a sentence

  • We hoped the speech would include reassurances, but instead it was merely one bromide after another.
  • Swear?” Lily swore and pinkie-promised too, by way of extra reassurance.
  • “Doesn't everyone call his doctor every week or two for reassurance about some worrisome symptom?”

All 18 example sentences with reassurance

Forms of reassurance

pluralreassurances
alternative formre-assurance

Plural of reassurance: reassurances

Origin of reassurance

From re- + assurance.

Questions about reassurance

What does reassurance mean?
Reassurance means the feeling of being reassured, of having confidence restored, of having apprehensions dispelled.
What is reassurance in Urdu?
Reassurance in Urdu is یقین دہانی. See Reassurance meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is reassurance?
Reassurance is a noun.
What is the plural of reassurance?
The plural of reassurance is reassurances.

Words near reassurance in the dictionary

  1. reassumeth
  2. reassuming
  3. reassumption
  4. reassumptions
  5. reassurable
  6. reassurance
  7. reassurances
  8. reassure
  9. reassured
  10. reassuredly
  11. reassurement

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: reassurance (page history and authors); reassurance (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); reassurance (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); reassurance (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); reassurance (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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