reliance

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: re=li=ance
• COUNT in NET: 1 in 1 verses (in OT : 1 in 1 verses)

CIDE DICTIONARY

reliance, n. [From Rely.].

•  The act of relying, or the condition or quality of being reliant; dependence; confidence; trust; repose of mind upon what is deemed sufficient support or authority.  [1913 Webster]

  "In reliance on promises which proved to be of very little value."  [1913 Webster]
•  Anything on which to rely; dependence; ground of trust; as, the boat was a poor reliance.  Richardson.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

reliance, n.
1 (foll. by in, on) trust, confidence (put full reliance in you).
2 a thing relied upon.

Derivative

reliant adj.

THESAURUS

reliance

Maecenas, abettor, acceptation, acception, acquiescence, admirer, advocate, aficionado, aid, angel, anticipation, apologist, aspiration, assumption, assurance, assured faith, assuredness, backer, backing, belief, buff, carriage, carrying, certainty, champion, cheerful expectation, confidence, contemplation, conviction, credence, credit, credulity, defender, dependence, desire, doomed hope, encourager, endorser, expectancy, expectation, exponent, fair prospect, faith, fan, favorer, fervent hope, friend at court, good cheer, good hope, great expectations, high hopes, hope, hopeful prognosis, hopefulness, hopes, hoping, hoping against hope, imminence, lover, mainstay, maintainer, maintenance, moral support, paranymph, partisan, patron, prayerful hope, presumption, probability, promise, promoter, prospect, prospects, protagonist, psychological support, reception, reliance on, sanguine expectation, second, seconder, sectary, security, security blanket, sider, sponsor, stalwart, standby, stock, store, subsidy, subvention, support, supporter, supportive relationship, supportive therapy, sureness, surety, suspension of disbelief, sustainer, sustaining, sustainment, sustenance, sustentation, sympathizer, thought, trust, unastonishment, upholder, upholding, upkeep, votary, well-grounded hope, well-wisher

ROGET THESAURUS

reliance

Hope

N hope, hopes, desire, fervent hope, sanguine expectation, trust, confidence, reliance, faith, affiance, assurance, secureness, security, reassurance, good omen, good auspices, promise, well grounded hopes, good prospect, bright prospect, clear sky, assumption, presumption, anticipation, hopefulness, buoyancy, optimism, enthusiasm, heart of grace, aspiration, optimist, utopian, utopist, castles in the air, castles in Spain, chateaux en Espagne, le pot aut lait, Utopia, millennium, day dream, golden dream, dream of Alnaschar, airy hopes, fool's paradise, mirage, fond hope, beam of hope, ray of hope, gleam of hope, glimmer of hope, flash of hope, dawn of hope, star of hope, cheer, bit of blue sky, silver lining, silver lining of the cloud, bottom of Pandora's box, balm in Gilead, light at the end of the tunnel, anchor, sheet anchor, mainstay, staff, heaven, hoping, in hopes, hopeful, confident, secure, sanguine, in good heart, buoyed up, buoyant, elated, flushed, exultant, enthusiastic, heartsome, utopian, unsuspecting, unsuspicious, fearless, free from fear, free from suspicion, free from distrust, free from despair, exempt from fear, exempt from suspicion, exempt from distrust, exempt from despair, undespairing, self reliant, probable, on the high road to, within sight of shore, within sight of land, promising, propitious, of promise, full of promise, of good omen, auspicious, de bon augure, reassuring, encouraging, cheering, inspiriting, looking up, bright, roseate, couleur de rose, rose-colored, hopefully, Int, God speed!, nil desperandum, never say die, dum spiro spero, latet scintillula forsan, all is for the best, spero meliora, every cloud has a silver lining, the wish being father to the thought, hope told a flattering tale, rusticus expectat dum defluat amnis, at spes non fracta, ego spem prietio non emo, un Dieu est ma fiance, hope! thou nurse of young desire, in hoc signo spes mea, in hoc signo vinces, la speranza e il pan de miseri, l'esperance est le songe d'un homme eveille, the mighty hopes that make us men, the sickening pang of hope deferred.

Expectation

N expectation, expectance, expectancy, anticipation, reckoning, calculation, foresight, contemplation, prospection, lookout, prospect, perspective, horizon, vista, destiny, suspense, waiting, abeyance, curiosity, anxious expectation, ardent expectation, eager expectation, breathless expectation, sanguine expectation, torment of Tantalus, hope, trust, auspices, assurance, confidence, presumption, reliance, expectant, expecting, in expectation, on the watch, open-eyed, open-mouthed, in wide-eyed anticipation, agape, gaping, all agog, on tenterhooks, on tiptoe, on the tiptoe of expectation, aux aguets, ready, curious, looking forward to, expected, long expected, foreseen, in prospect, prospective, in one's eye, in one's view, in the horizon, on the horizon, just over the horizon, just around the corner, around the corner, impending, on the watch, with breathless expectation, with bated breath, with rapt anticipation, arrectis auribus, we shall see, nous verrons, expectation whirls me round, the light at the end of the tunnel.