The word reliance is the noun form of the verb rely, which means to depend. Your reliance on the Internet for your information will be your undoing, if the power ever goes out.
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.
Noun
certainty based on past experience; "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"
Noun
the state of relying on something
n.
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.
n.
Anything on which to rely; dependence; ground of trust;
as, the boat was a poor reliance.
Reliance
In reliance on promises which proved to be of very little value.2.
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.
Usage Examples
Some argue that now isn't the time to push the green agenda - that all efforts should be on preventing a serious recession. That is a false choice. It fails to recognise that climate change and our carbon reliance is part of problem - high fuel prices and food shortages due to poor crop yields compound today's financial difficulties.
We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.
You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.
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Other Usage ExamplesI know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.
There is an inverse relationship between reliance on the state and self-reliance.
A third ideal that has made its way in the modern world is reliance on reason, especially reason disciplined and enriched by modern science. An eternal basis of human intercommunication is reason.
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