Presunción in english
Presumption
pronunciation: prɪzʌmpʃən part of speech: noun
pronunciation: prɪzʌmpʃən part of speech: noun
In gestures
presunción1 = presumption ; presupposition [pre-supposition] ; supposition ; wild guess.
Example: Some of these presumptions have served only to perpetuate misconceptions of collection.Example: Computers hold pre-defined and fixed presuppositions, whilst those of humans are unpredictable.Example: Only viewpoints which are quite definite and not merely suppositions on the librarian's part should be mentioned.Example: A group of NASA scientists employed a dartboard to reach a wild guess on the possible composition of Mars.more:
» presunción de culpabilidad = presumed guilty .
Example: They describe what it is like to find yourself on the other side of a one-way mirror, innocent but presumed guilty, by professionals who are almost completely unaccountable.» presunción de hecho = prima facie .
Example: Ordinarily a distributor of a libel would be prima facie liable.» presunción de inocencia = presumed innocent .
Example: Everyone charged with a criminal offence shall be presumed innocent until proved guilty according to law.presunción2 = pretentiousness ; self-importance ; conceit ; presumptuousness ; presumption ; self-conceit ; pretension ; smugness ; vainglory ; vainness.
Example: His publications attacked the pretentiousness and fallibility of the world of academia.Example: Some people have a neurotic, exaggerated sense of self-importance and will nitpick and make a row over just everything in every shop or restaurant.Example: It's been hard to stomach the fool, with his conceit and his whining.Example: In contrast, Heidegger never repented his presumptuousness.Example: His fall from grace may have been due to his presumption in using Hatshepsut's temple for his own devotional purposes.Example: Man's self-conceit and love of power are the cause of most of his troubles, sins and vices.Example: He'd been popular earlier on but was now on thin ice with most members of our class due to his pretension and uppity manner.Example: However, his smugness drives me crazy.Example: In the play fragment mentioned above, Robin is captured almost certainly out of the foolishness of his vainglory -- a lesson to be brave but cautious and not to boast of one's accomplishments.Example: For some you will look like the sad culmination of vainness while others will admire you and think you are the coolest thing since sliced bread.