speculation
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6.2
- noun
- /ˌspɛkjʊˈleɪʃən/
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especulación
- Our examination of skill level differences in pausing and pitch change led to interesting speculation about how prosody might develop.
- philosophical speculation
- metaphysical speculation
- theoretical speculation
No thought or any deep speculation can alter the world.
- No thought or any deep speculation can alter the world.
- So all of these, you know, sort of seemingly metaphysical speculations about what, where's God?
- So this isn't just some abstruse linguistic speculations.
- Now it's interesting that this Place Utopia, which is his speculation about what an ideal urban world would look like.
- Now when you get into that, I mean, this is kind of an hours and hours of the speculation.
- These are the kinds of speculations one can't help making, I find.
Examples
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Anything I might say, without further investigation, would be speculation.
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No thought or any deep speculation can alter the world.
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We also own up to when it is speculation because some things we know for sure.
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It's a form of speculation really, but it's in a book called Risk.
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The significance of the figure is the subject of wide speculation.
Academic text (2011) -
Whether trafficking violence would be reduced by a comparable amount is a question for speculation, with no real evidence either way.
Academic text (2011) -
Within this intimate arena, Archbishop Morette had been a figure of speculation and controversy.
Fiction book (2000) -
Meanwhile, the death of Osama bin Laden has prompted considerable speculation about his eternal destiny.
Academic text (2011) -
Well, that is clearly a metaphysical speculation... and like most metaphysical speculations... has very little reference at all... to the actual facts of real life as we know them.
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Philosophical speculation often leads to new interpretations of existence.
Synonyms
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4.8
Thinking about something very carefully for a long time
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3.9
A long, deep period of thinking about serious ideas
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7.4
Long, careful thinking about something
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8.3
Talking or thinking about big ideas in a general, not formal way
Antonyms
How Deep
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Speculation has the root spec- meaning 'to look', like in inspect, so it can mean careful thinking where you 'look closely' at ideas. That's why in philosophy speculation means long, deep thought about big questions.