Synonyms of the word

speculation

• n. The process of thinking or meditating on a subject.
• n. (philosophy) The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
• n. A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture.
• n. (business, finance) An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal…
• n. The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price,…
• n. Examination by the eye; view.
• n. (obsolete) Power of sight.
• n. A card game in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting…

conjecture

• n. (formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
• n. (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
• n. (mathematics, philology) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not…
• n. (obsolete) Interpretation of signs and omens.
• v. (formal, intransitive) To guess; to venture an unproven idea.

contemplation

• n. The act of the mind in considering with attention; continued attention of the mind to a particular subject;…
• n. Holy meditation.
• n. The act of looking forward to an event as about to happen; expectation; the act of intending or purposing.

guess

• v. To reach a partly (or totally) unqualified conclusion.
• v. To solve by a correct conjecture; to conjecture rightly.
• v. (chiefly US) to suppose (introducing a proposition of uncertain plausibility).
• v. (obsolete) To hit upon or reproduce by memory.
• n. A prediction about the outcome of something, typically made without factual evidence or support.

hypothesis

• n. (sciences) Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem…
• n. (general) An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.
• n. (grammar) The antecedent of a conditional statement.

investment

• n. The act of investing, or state of being invested.
• n. (finance) A placement of capital in expectation of deriving income or profit from its use or appreciation.
• n. That with which anyone is invested; a vestment.
• n. (military) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being…
• n. A mixture of silica sand and plaster which, by surrounding a wax pattern, creates a negative mold of the…

meditation

• n. A devotional exercise of, or leading to contemplation.
• n. A contemplative discourse, often on a religious or philosophical subject.

musing

• v. present participle of muse.
• adj. Absorbed in thought; contemplative.
• n. thought, meditation, contemplation.

opinion

• n. A belief that a person has formed about a topic or issue.
• n. The judgment or sentiment which the mind forms of persons or things; estimation.
• n. (obsolete) Favorable estimation; hence, consideration; reputation; fame; public sentiment or esteem.
• n. (obsolete) Obstinacy in holding to one's belief or impression; opiniativeness; conceitedness.
• n. The formal decision, or expression of views, of a judge, an umpire, a doctor, or other party officially…
• n. (European Union law) a judicial opinion delivered by an Advocate General to the European Court of Justice…
• v. (transitive, archaic) To have or express as an opinion.

possibility

• n. The quality of being possible.
• n. A thing possible; that which may take place or come into being.
• n. An option or choice, usually used in context with future events.

reflection

• n. The act of reflecting or the state of being reflected.
• n. The property of a propagated wave being thrown back from a surface (such as a mirror).
• n. Something, such as an image, that is reflected.
• n. Careful thought or consideration.
• n. An implied criticism.
• n. (computing) The process or mechanism of determining the capabilities of an object at run-time.

reflexion

• n. Alternative spelling of reflection.

rumination

• n. The act of ruminating; i.e. chewing cud and other ruminants.
• n. (figuratively) Deep thought or consideration.
• n. (psychology) Negative cyclic thinking; persistent and recurrent worrying or brooding.
• n. (pathology) An eating disorder characterized by repetitive regurgitation of small amounts of food from…

supposition

• n. Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture.
• n. The act or an instance of supposing.

surmisal

• n. surmise.

surmise

• n. Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
• n. Reflection; thought; posit.
• v. To conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises.

theory

• n. (obsolete) Mental conception; reflection, consideration.
• n. (sciences) A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena, or which sets…
• n. (uncountable) The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to…
• n. (mathematics) A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs.
• n. A hypothesis or conjecture.
• n. (countable, logic) A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them. Equivalently, a formal…

thoughtfulness

• n. thoughtful and considerate attention.
• n. careful deliberation before action.

venture

• n. A risky or daring undertaking or journey.
• n. An event that is not, or cannot be, foreseen; an accident; chance; contingency.
• n. The thing risked; a stake; especially, something sent to sea in trade.
• v. (transitive) To undertake a risky or daring journey.
• v. (transitive) To risk or offer.
• v. (intransitive) to dare to engage in; to attempt without any certainty of success. Used with at or on.
• v. (transitive) To put or send on a venture or chance.
• v. (transitive) To confide in; to rely on; to trust.
• v. (transitive) To say something.

view

• n. (physical) Visual perception.
• n. A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
• n. (psychological) Opinion, judgement, imagination.
• n. (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational…
• n. (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted…
• n. A wake.
• v. (transitive) To look at.
• v. (transitive) To regard in a stated way.