supposition
nounEtymology
From Middle English supposicioun, from Anglo-Norman supposicion, from Latin suppositiō, suppositiōnem (“supposition”), from sub- (“under”) + positiō, positiōnem (“position; theme”), from positus (“position”), from the perfect passive participle of pōnō, pōnere (“put, place”).
- derived from suppositio
- derived from supposicion
- inherited from supposicioun
Definitions
Something that is supposed
Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture.
- The supposition that Geoffrey had been chloroformed was a reasonable hypothesis at that stage of the disclosure.
The act or an instance of supposing.
The neighborhood
- synonymassumption
- synonymconjecture
- synonymeducated guess
- synonymforeguess
- synonymgiven
- synonymguess
- synonymguesstimate
- synonymhunch
- synonymhypothesis
- synonyminference
- synonymoverhope
- synonymposit
- neighbordeposition
- neighborsuppositious
- neighborsupposititious
- neighborsuppository
- neighboraxiom
- neighborpostulate
- neighborsuppose
- neighborstatement
- neighborprejudice
- neighborpresupposition
- neighborshot in the dark
- neighborSWAG
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at supposition. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at supposition. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at supposition
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA