Synonyms of the word supposition


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supposition

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

assumption

  • n. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.
  • n. The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
  • n. The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
  • n. (logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
  • n. The taking of a person up into heaven.
  • n. A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
  • n. (rhetoric) Assumptio.

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.

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.

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.

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…

supposal

  • n. The act of supposing.
  • n. That which is supposed; supposition; opinion.

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…

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.

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