All supposition synonyms
sup·po·si·tion
S s noun supposition
- formularization — The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition.
- guess — to arrive at or commit oneself to an opinion about (something) without having sufficient evidence to support the opinion fully: to guess a person's weight.
- inference — the act or process of inferring.
- deduction — A deduction is a conclusion that you have reached about something because of other things that you know to be true.
- codification — the systematic organization of methods, rules, etc
- concept — A concept is an idea or abstract principle.
- guesstimate — to estimate without substantial basis in facts or statistics.
- conceptualization — to form into a concept; make a concept of.
- gut feeling — an instinctive feeling, as opposed to an opinion based on facts
- belief — Belief is a feeling of certainty that something exists, is true, or is good.
- guessing — The act of making a guess; estimate or prediction; foresight.
- expectancy — The state of thinking or hoping that something, especially something pleasant, will happen or be the case.
- hypothesis — a proposition, or set of propositions, set forth as an explanation for the occurrence of some specified group of phenomena, either asserted merely as a provisional conjecture to guide investigation (working hypothesis) or accepted as highly probable in the light of established facts.
- big idea — any plan or proposal that is grandiose, impractical, and usually unsolicited: You're always coming around here with your big ideas.
- apriorism — the philosophical doctrine that there may be genuine knowledge independent of experience
- in sight — an instance of apprehending the true nature of a thing, especially through intuitive understanding: an insight into 18th-century life.
- earful — an outpouring of oral information or advice, especially when given without solicitation.
- intellection — the action or process of understanding; the exercise of the intellect; reasoning.
- expectation — A strong belief that something will happen or be the case in the future.
- conclusion — When you come to a conclusion, you decide that something is true after you have thought about it carefully and have considered all the relevant facts.
- apriority — the quality or fact of being a priori
- assumption — If you make an assumption that something is true or will happen, you accept that it is true or will happen, often without any real proof.
- imagination — the faculty of imagining, or of forming mental images or concepts of what is not actually present to the senses.
- dubiosity — dubiety.
- ideality — ideal quality or character.
- nonbelief — (religion) Failure to believe; lack of religion.
- opinion — a belief or judgment that rests on grounds insufficient to produce complete certainty.
- conjecture — A conjecture is a conclusion that is based on information that is not certain or complete.
- lemma — a subsidiary proposition introduced in proving some other proposition; a helping theorem.
- brain wave — any of the fluctuations of electrical potential in the brain as represented on an electroencephalogram. They vary in frequency from 1 to 30 hertz
- impression — a strong effect produced on the intellect, feelings, conscience, etc.
- lemmata — a subsidiary proposition introduced in proving some other proposition; a helping theorem.
- wittiness — possessing wit in speech or writing; amusingly clever in perception and expression: a witty writer.
adv supposition
- in a sense — any of the faculties, as sight, hearing, smell, taste, or touch, by which humans and animals perceive stimuli originating from outside or inside the body: My sense of smell tells me that dinner is ready.
- hypothetically — assumed by hypothesis; supposed: a hypothetical case.