speculation
The process or act of thinking or meditating on a subject.
Other meanings
The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture.
Related words
- antispeculation
- misspeculation
- nonspeculation
- overspeculation
- prespeculation
Word history
From Latin "speculor".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “speculation” on Wiktionary, by its contributors, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.