Synonyms of presupposing

presupposing

verb

present participle of presuppose

as in assuming

to take as true or as a fact without actual proof

the book presupposes its readers will already know something about the subject

Synonyms & Similar Words

• assuming
• saying
• presuming
• believing
• supposing
• thinking
• postulating
• hypothesizing
• concluding
• guessing
• premising
• figuring
• dreaming
• insisting
• accepting
• hypothecating
• imagining
• inferring
• taking for granted
• suspecting
• deducing
• claiming
• crediting
• judging
• perceiving
• speculating
• maintaining
• declaring
• asserting
• swallowing
• affirming
• theorizing
• conjecturing
• contending
• conceiving
• fancying
• alleging
• surmising
• gathering
• suspicioning
• taking
• averring
• professing
• avowing
• reckoning
• preconceiving
• avouching

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• doubting
• questioning
• discounting
• denying
• disputing
• challenging
• wondering (about)
• controverting
• discrediting
• disbelieving
• disagreeing (with)
• distrusting
• rejecting
• repudiating
• disclaiming
• disavowing
• mistrusting
• refuting
• disproving
• rebutting
• disowning
• belying
• confuting