reassurance

See also: réassurance and re-assurance

English

Alternative forms

• re-assurance

Etymology

From re- +‎ assurance.

Pronunciation

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Noun

reassurance (countable and uncountable, plural reassurances)

1. The feeling of being reassured, of having confidence restored, of having apprehensions dispelled.
   • 2025 January 10, Peter Thiel, “A time for truth and reconciliation”, in Financial Times‎^[1], archived from the original on 10 January 2025:

     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.

2. The act of confirming someone's opinion or impression.
   • 2017 June 11, “DUP leader hails 'good progress' with Theresa May”, in The Scotsman‎^[2], archived from the original on 10 July 2025:

     "The PM’s private reassurances are worthless given her track record of u-turns and her clear desperation to cling to power."

3. (law, insurance) Reinsurance.

Related terms

• reassure

Translations

feeling

• Spanish: reaseguranza f

act

• Spanish: reaseguramiento m

reinsurance — see reinsurance