Reassurance

Definition: Reassurance

Reassurance

Noun

1. The act of reassuring; restoring someone's confidence.

Date "reassurance" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references)

Domain	Definitions
Medicine	A procedure in psychotherapy that seeks to give the client confidence in a favorable outcome. It makes use of suggestion, of the prestige of the therapist. . Source: European Union. (references)
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Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Hope	Noun: hope, hopes; desire; fervent hope, sanguine expectation, trust, confidence, reliance; faith; (belief); affiance, assurance; secureness, security; reassurance.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Reassurance

English words defined with "reassurance": assure ♦ precarious ♦ reassure ♦ uneasy, unstable. (references)

Specialty definitions using "reassurance": hand-holder ♦ supportive therapy. (references)

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Two of them were killers that never made it past the age of 35. The other is a non-practicing attorney, living within the pain of his past, too afraid to let go, finding reassurance instead of confronting its horror. (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson)
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Domain	Title
Books	A God We Can Trust: A Pastor Offers Reassurance and Hope in a Changed World (reference) A Mother's Circle: Wisdom and Reassurance from Other Mothers on Your First Year With Baby (reference) Constructing Regional Security: The Role of Arms Transfers, Arms Control, and Reassurance (reference) Designing Disney's Theme Parks: The Architecture of Reassurance (reference) God Is Never Late...but Never Early Either: Reassurance for Humanity from Another Dimension (reference) (more book examples)
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Health		In particular, the HSAM study provided a high level of reassurance. (references)
		Women with true negative mammogram screening tests may benefit from reassurance that they do not have breast cancer. (references)
		Refusing to discuss death may deny your child an outlet for some strong and possibly frightening feelings, and it will deny you the opportunity to offer comfort or reassurance. (references)
Economic History	Lebanon	The presence of many international chains such as Starwood, Accor, Holiday Inn, Marriott and Inter-Continental hotels in Lebanon offers reassurance to travelers still unsure of Beirut as a travel destination. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
Warren G. Harding	1921-1923	But with the realization comes the surge of high resolve, and there is reassurance in belief in the God-given destiny of our Republic.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

"Reassurance" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.63% of the time. "Reassurance" is used about 534 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	99.63%	532	11,529
Noun (proper)	0.37%	2	245,945
Total	100.00%	534	N/A

Hypenated Usage
	Ending with "reassurance": self-reassurance.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Language		Translations for "reassurance"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		sigurim (ascertainment, cover, coverage, floater, indemnity, insurance, procuration, procurement, reversion, safeguard, safety, security), siguri i ringjallur, qetësim (appeasement, assuagement, comfort, impassivity, lull, mollification, pacification, propitiation, relief, rest, sedation, slack, softening), pohim (admission, affirmation, assertion, averment, avowal, claim, confession, confirmation, contention, corroboration, maintenance, predicate, predication, proposition, showing, testimony), heqje e merakut, bindje e ringjallur, besë e rivendosur. (various references)

Arabic		‏تأكيد مجدد (reaffirmation), ‏تشجيع (comforting, countenance, encouragement, inducement, pep talk, spur), ‏إعادة الطمأنينة. (various references)

Bulgarian		успокоение (assuagement, ease, relief, salve), увереност (assurance, certainty, certitude, confidence, security, sureness, surety, trust), увещание (expostulation), убеждаване (conviction, exhortation, persuasion, suasion), преосигуряване. (various references)

Chinese		再保证. (various references)

Czech		uklidnìní (appeasement, pacificator), ujištìní (assurance, reinsurance), útìcha (comfort, consolation, console, solace). (various references)

Farsi		اطمینان مجدد, بیمه اتکاءی , بیمه ثانوی . (various references)

French		rassurance, réconfort, assurance. (various references)

German		Rückversicherung (reinsurance). (various references)

Greek		καθησύχαση (kill). (various references)

Hungarian		megnyugtatás (assuagement, settling, tranquillization), viszontbiztosítás (reinsurance), megújult önbizalom, felbátorítás. (various references)

Italian		rassicurazione. (various references)

Pig Latin		eassuranceray

Portuguese		resseguro (reinsurance), reafirmação, nova garantia. (various references)

Romanian		reasigurare (reinsurance), potolire (easement, mollification, relief, relieving, satisfaction, solace), liniştire (appeasement, assuagement, easement, moderation, mollification), asigurare (assurance, ensuring, faith, indemnity, insurance, provision), încurajare (cheer, encouragement, encouraging). (various references)

Russian		утешение (comfort, consolation, refuge, solace), увещание (exhortation, expostulation, remonstrance), восстановленное доверие, повторное заверение, подтверждение (attestation, confirmation, corroboration, endorsement, evidence, indorsation, indorsement, justification, restatement, verification, vindication), подбадривание (whistling in the dark), перестраховка (counter-insurance), перестрахование (reinsurance). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		ponovno potvrđivanje. (various references)

Spanish		seguridades, promesa tranquilizadora, noticia tranquilizadora, aseguro, alivio (abatement, alleviation, appeasement, comfort, ease, help, mitigation, relief, reprieve). (various references)

Swedish		uppmuntran (countenance, encouragement, fillip, fomentation, incentive), tröst (comfort, consolation, solace, sop). (various references)

Turkish		reasürans (reinsurance), yenilenmiş sigorta, yeniden güven verme, içini rahatlatma, güvence (assurance, guarantee, guaranty, indemnification, indemnity, security, surety), doyurma (feeding, impregnation, satiation, saturation). (various references)

Ukranian		умовляння (admonition, blandishment, cajolement, cajolery, coaxing, exhortation, expostulation, remonstrance, suasion), знову здобутий спокій, повторне запевнення. (various references)

Vietnamese		sự l� m yên lòng, sự l� m vững dạ sự bảo hiểm lại, sự cam đoan một lần nữa, sự đoan chắc một lần nữa sự l� m yên tâm. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "reassurance": reassurances. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "reassurance" (pronounced rē'ushuh"runs)
7	-u sh uh" r u n s	assurance.
6	-sh uh" r u n s	insurance, reinsurance.
4	-r u n s	abhorrence, adherence, appearance, circumference, Clarence, clearance, coherence, disappearance, entrance, Florence, forbearance, fragrance, hindrance, incoherence, interference, noninterference, perseverance, preponderance, reappearance, recalcitrance, remembrance, teleconference, videoconference.
3	-u n s	abeyance, absence, abstinence, abundance, acceptance, accordance, acquaintance, acquiescence, admirations, admittance, adolescence, affluence, allegiance, alliance, allowance, ambiance, ambience, ambivalence, ambulance, annoyance, appliance, arrogance, ascendance, assistance, attendance, audience, avoidance, balance, belligerence, beneficence, benevolence, bioscience, brilliance, cadence, capacitance, chrominance, clairvoyance, coexistence, cognizance, coincidence, coinsurance, comeuppance, competence, compliance, concurrence, condolence, conference, confidence, confluence, conformance, congruence, connivance, conscience, consequence, consistence, continuance, contrivance, convalescence, convenience, convergence, conveyance, correspondence, countenance, counterbalance, counterintelligence, credence, dalliance, decadence, Defeasance, deference, defiance, deliverance, dependence, deterrence, deviance, difference, diligence, disallowance, discontinuance, disobedience, dissidence, dissonance, distance, disturbance, divergence, dominance, ebullience, elegance, eloquence, emergence, eminence, endurance, equivalence, essence, evanescence, evidence, excellence, existence, expedience, experience, extravagance, exuberance, flamboyance, furtherance, governance, grievance, guidance, ignorance, imbalance, immanence, imminence, impatience, impedance, importance, impotence, imprudence, inadvertence, incidence, incompetence, incontinence, inconvenience, independence, indifference, inductance, indulgence, inexperience, inference, influence, inheritance, innocence, insignificance, insistence, insolence, instance, intelligence, interdependence, intolerance, intransigence, invariance, irrelevance, irreverence, issuance, jurisprudence, licence, license, luminance, luminescence, maintenance, malfeasance, negligence, neuroscience, noncompliance, nonviolence, nuisance, obedience, observance, obsolescence, occurrence, omnipotence, omnipresence, opulence, ordinance, Ordnance, overabundance, overconfidence, overdependence, overreliance, parlance, patience, penance, performance, permanence, persecutions, persistence, pestilence, petulance, phosphorescence, pittance, precedence, predominance, preeminence, preference, prescience, presence, prevalence, prominence, protuberance, provenance, Providence, province, prudence, pseudoscience, quintessence, radiance, recognizance, reconnaissance, recurrence, reemergence, reference, reinspections, relevance, reliance, reluctance, reminiscence, remittance, repentance, resemblance, residence, resilience, resistance, resonance, resurgence, reticence, reverence, riddance, science, semblance, senescence, sentence, sequence, severance, significance, silence, submergence, subservience, subsidence, subsistence, substance, surveillance, sustenance, temperance, tolerance, transcendence, transference, transience, turbulence, unbalance, utterance, Valence, variance, vehemence, vengeance, vigilance, violence, virulence.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-c-e-e-n-r-r-s-s-u"
	-2 letters: anacruses, assurance, censurers, cesareans, ecraseurs.
	-3 letters: anureses, caesurae, caesuras, caresser, casernes, censurer, censures, cesarean, creasers, ecraseur, ensurers, erasures, rareness, reassure, rescuers, securers, surcease.
	-4 letters: ancress, arcuses, arrases, assurer, caesars, caesura, careens, careers, casease, caserne, caserns, causers, censers, censure, ceruses, cesurae, cesuras, crasser, creaser, creases, curaras, curares, currans, cursers, earners, encases, ensurer, ensures, erasers, erasure, nauseas, nursers, rasures, recanes, recuses, reearns, rescuer, rescues, reseaus, saucers, scarers, screens, seances, secerns, securer, secures, senecas, snarers, sucrase, uncases, uneases, ureases, usances.
	-5 letters: acarus, aeneus, anears, anuses, arcane, arecas, arenas, assure, caesar, caners, careen, career, carers, caress, carses, casern, causer, causes, ceases, censer, censes, census, cereus, ceruse, cesura, cranes, crases, crease, cruses, curara, curare, curers, curran, curser, curses, cusser, earner, encase, ensues, ensure, enures, eraser, erases, escars, nacres, nausea, nearer, nurser, nurses, racers, rances, ranees, rasers, rasure, recane, recess, recurs, recuse, reearn, reruns, rescue, reseau, reuses, ruanas, sansar, sarans, sarees, sarsar, sarsen, saucer, sauces, saunas, scarer, scares, scaurs, scenas, scenes, screen, screes, seance, searer, secern, secure, seneca, seracs, snarer, snares, sneers, sucres, surras, uncase, unease, urares, urases, urease, usance, usneae, usneas.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-c-e-e-n-r-r-s-s-u"
	+1 letter: reassurances.
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