Assurance
Assurance noun - A state of mind in which one is free from doubt.
Compunction is an antonym for assurance.
Compunction
Compunction noun - An uneasy feeling about the rightness of what one is doing or going to do.
Usage example: throughout her school years she cheated without compunction
Assurance is an antonym for compunction.
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Compunction and Assurance. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 13, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/assurance/compunction
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