Assurance and Compunction

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.

How words are described

real real assurance real compunction
little little assurance little compunction
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