Noun reliance has 2 senses
  1. reliance, trust - 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"
    --1 is a kind of certainty
    Derived form: verb rely1
  2. reliance - the state of relying on something
    --2 is a kind of
    dependence, dependance, dependency
    Derived form: verb rely1
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