Speculation Definition

spĕkyə-lāshən
speculations
noun
speculations
Reasoning based on inconclusive evidence; conjecture or supposition.
American Heritage
The act of speculating, or meditating.
Webster's New World
A thought or conjecture.
Webster's New World
The act of speculating in stocks, land, etc.
Webster's New World
Contemplation or consideration of a subject; meditation.
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Other Word Forms of Speculation

Noun

Singular:
speculation
Plural:
speculations

Origin of Speculation

  • From Old French speculation (French: spéculation), from Late Latin speculātiōnem, from Latin speculātiō.

    From Wiktionary

Speculation Sentence Examples

  • This sort of speculation is going to intensify.

  • Speculation and suspicion had done enough harm already.

  • Further speculation ended as they both drifted back to sleep.

  • This has been due to speculation, to the unrestricted pasturage of goats, to the rights which many communes have over the forests, and to some extent to excessive taxation, which led the proprietors to cut and sell the trees and then abandon the ground to the Treasury.

  • One could hardly expect that a colourless deity of this description, so completely the product of priestly speculation, could ever have found a place in the hearts of the people generally.

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