assurance vs self-centeredness

assurance

noun
  • Firmness of mind; undoubting steadiness; intrepidity; courage; confidence; self-reliance. 

  • Subjective certainty of one's salvation. 

  • The act of assuring; a declaration tending to inspire full confidence; something designed to give confidence. 

  • Insurance; a contract for the payment of a sum on occasion of a certain event, as loss or death. Assurance is used in relation to life contingencies, and insurance in relation to other contingencies. It is called temporary assurance, in the time within which the contingent event must happen is limited. 

  • The state of being assured; total confidence or trust; a lack of doubt; certainty. 

  • Excessive boldness; impudence; audacity 

  • Any written or other legal evidence of the conveyance of property; a conveyance; a deed. 

self-centeredness

noun
  • The state, quality, or condition of being self-centered; concern only for oneself 

How often have the words assurance and self-centeredness occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )