Dictionary definition · presumption
noun
- an assumption that is taken for granted
- (law) an inference of the truth of a fact from other facts proved or admitted or judicially noticed
- audacious (even arrogant) behavior that you have no right to"he despised them for their presumptuousness"
- a kind of discourtesy in the form of an act of presuming"his presumption was intolerable"
Source: Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).