English noun: reliance | |||
1. | reliance (cognition) certainty based on past experience | ||
Samples | He wrote the paper with considerable reliance on the work of other scientists. He put more trust in his own two legs than in the gun. | ||
Synonyms | trust | ||
Broader (hypernym) | certainty | ||
2. | reliance (state) the state of relying on something | ||
Broader (hypernym) | dependance, dependence, dependency | ||