Reassurance
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Reassurance is a noun meaning The feeling of being reassured, of having confidence restored, of having apprehensions dispelled.
Meaning
The feeling of being reassured, of having confidence restored, of having apprehensions dispelled.
More Meanings
- The act of confirming someone's opinion or impression.
- (law, insurance) Reinsurance.
Example Sentences
"The PM’s private reassurances are worthless given her track record of u-turns and her clear desperation to cling to power."
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.
Word Forms
- reassurances
- re-assurance
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include assurance, certainty, assertion, affirmation, confirmation, safety.
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