reassurancenoun [ C or U ]
uk/ˌriː.əˈʃɔː.rəns/us/ˌriː.əˈʃʊr.əns/C2 words of advice and comfort intended to make someone feel less worried:
I felt I couldn't cope with the situation and was in desperate need of some reassurance.
Despite her father's reassurances, she was still frightened of the dark.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Reassuring
- assure
- be/take a weight off your mind idiom
- calm (sb) down
- comfort
- comforting
- consolation
- console
- consoling
- consolingly
- convince
- emollient
- get (sth) through (to sb)
- heartened
- heartening
- lighten
- mind
- no news is good news idiom
- should
- they should worry! idiom
- weight
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