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dependences

NOUN

confidence, reliance

Synonyms

WEAK

assurance belief credence expectation faith hope interdependence responsibility responsibleness stability steadiness stock trust trustiness trustworthiness

Antonyms

WEAK

freedom independence strength subtraction want

NOUN

addiction, need

Synonyms

WEAK

attachment contingency habit helplessness hook inability security blanket servility subjection subordination subservience vulnerability weakness yoke

Antonyms

WEAK

freedom independence strength subtraction want

NOUN

reliance

Synonyms

STRONGEST

confidence dependency

STRONG

addiction belief craving credence faith habit jones obsession trust

WEAK

addictedness

Antonyms

STRONG

disbelief distrust indifference

Example Sentences

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A breakdown of the properties registered overseas shows they went to a total of 44 different countries or crown dependences, including Russia and the Cayman Islands.

From BBC • May 12, 2026

Here, though, the men’s relationship, with its kindness, virtues and mutual dependences, also offers a vision of an American dream not yet wholly corrupted by unbridled self-interest.

From New York Times • Sep. 26, 2019

But yet it is less danger to have an ambitious man stirring in business, than great in dependences.

From A Century of English Essays An Anthology Ranging from Caxton to R. L. Stevenson & the Writers of Our Own Time by Rhys, Ernest

Claims made by their pride and their self-respect, and their weaknesses and dependences.

From The Research Magnificent by Wells, H. G. (Herbert George)

But yet it is less danger, to have an ambitious man stirring in business, than great in dependences.

From The Essays of Francis Bacon by Bacon, Francis