Definition for Speculation:

• A train of thoughts arising in the mind from viewing a thing in various aspects and relations; a theory; the act or practice of purchasing goods, & c., out of the regular order of trade, in expectation of being able to sell them at a large advance in price.

Synonyms for Speculation:

• n.

  •
  • speculative,
  • yield.
  •
  • estimate,
  • guesstimate.
  •
  • belief.
  •
  • gamble.
  •prediction (noun)
  • foretaste,
  • premonition,
  • revelation,
  • prediction,
  • prophecy,
  • forecast,
  • hunch,
  • foreshadowing,
  • omen,
  • augury,
  • boding,
  • portent.
  •speculation (noun)
  • conjecture,
  • meditation.
  •supposition (noun)
  • inkling,
  • fantasy,
  • presumption.
  •theory, guess (noun)
  • thinking,
  • cerebration,
  • weighing.
  •thought (noun)
  • daydreaming,
  • attention,
  • calculation,
  • engrossment,
  • envisioning,
  • brooding,
  • analysis,
  • concentration,
  • preoccupation,
  • brain work,
  • wistfulness,
  • absorption,
  • reasoning,
  • evaluation,
  • imagination,
  • appraisal,
  • Debating,
  • study,
  • lucubration.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • commercialism,
  • commercially,
  • boom,
  • commercialized,
  • pay,
  • abstraction,
  • arbitrage,
  • brainwork,
  • earner,
  • lose,
  • profitability,
  • excogitation,
  • commercial.
  •
  • overestimate,
  • wager.
  •
  • call.
  •investment
  • banking.
  •Other relevant words:
  • monte,
  • illusion,
  • judgment,
  • potluck,
  • risky venture,
  • cribbage,
  • Nundination,
  • card games,
  • boston,
  • cut-in,
  • Allfours,
  • draw poker,
  • rough guess,
  • baccarat,
  • vision,
  • conclusion,
  • plunge,
  • apocalypse,
  • explanation,
  • flutter,
  • commerce,
  • Mercature,
  • trade,
  • postulation,
  • delusion,
  • brag,
  • weighting,
  • cards,
  • equity capital,
  • penny ante,
  • foretelling,
  • concern,
  • prognostication,
  • guestimate,
  • beggar-my-neighbor,
  • custom,
  • scheme,
  • put,
  • reconnaissance,
  • statistics,
  • profit taking,
  • limit,
  • suppose,
  • proposition,
  • connections,
  • throw,
  • speculate,
  • Brokery,
  • Scalping,
  • Prefiguring,
  • turn,
  • Prefigurement,
  • reverse,
  • idea,
  • twenty-one,
  • revolving,
  • traffic,
  • playing,
  • backing,
  • head work,
  • foresight,
  • piece,
  • Stockjobbing,
  • forecasting,
  • understanding,
  • pairs,
  • fright,
  • uncertainty,
  • banker,
  • perhaps,
  • bridge,
  • probability,
  • quadrille,
  • Wagering,
  • counsel,
  • Hazarding,
  • promise,
  • theoria,
  • ecarte,
  • sortition,
  • attempt,
  • trial,
  • theorization,
  • risky business,
  • commercial enterprise,
  • buying and selling,
  • aim,
  • mirage,
  • Bookmaking,
  • fluke,
  • system,
  • Omber,
  • patience,
  • theorem,
  • feeling,
  • assumption,
  • advisement,
  • casting lots,
  • loo,
  • lotto,
  • fortune,
  • essay,
  • hallucination,
  • prospectus,
  • Presaging,
  • stud poker,
  • straight poker,
  • prefiguration,
  • suspicion,
  • sneaking suspicion,
  • assurance,
  • whist,
  • crapshoot,
  • euchre,
  • nap,
  • Soothsay,
  • danger,
  • gaming,
  • stake,
  • agiotage,
  • sporting,
  • fancy,
  • bridge whist,
  • blind bargain,
  • Jobbing,
  • venture capital,
  • shot,
  • rake-off,
  • surmisal,
  • sense,
  • cassino,
  • peril,
  • Picquet,
  • presentiment,
  • squeezers,
  • Presignifying,
  • blackjack,
  • struggle,
  • stab in the dark,
  • improbability,
  • Theoric,
  • commit,
  • speculations,
  • chances,
  • Risking,
  • presage,
  • liquidation,
  • flyer,
  • Quinze,
  • foreshowing,
  • theoretic,
  • probation,
  • postulate,
  • game of chance,
  • reverie,
  • business,
  • Reversis,
  • calculated risk,
  • speculative enterprise,
  • Staking,
  • fling,
  • studying,
  • Prophesying,
  • close study,
  • Three-card Monte,
  • taking chance,
  • debut,
  • luck,
  • BARGAIN AND SALE,
  • guesswork,
  • foreboding,
  • review,
  • pipedream,
  • right money,
  • betting,
  • stab,
  • bluff,
  • judgement,
  • Vingtun,
  • thirty-one,
  • rubber,
  • poker,
  • game,
  • ideal,
  • vaticination,
  • endeavor,
  • premiss,
  • old maid,
  • application,
  • shopping,
  • Theoretics,
  • blind poker,
  • wondering.

Paraphrases for Speculation:

• Equivalence

  • Noun, singular or mass
    conjecture.

• Independent

  • Noun, singular or mass
    hypothesis, expectation, speculator, racketeering, suspicion, guess.

• Other Related

  • Adjective
    speculative.
  • Noun, singular or mass
    supposition, assumption, guesswork, prediction, anticipation, drivel, profiteering, forecast.

Antonyms for Speculation:

• n.

  • theory, guess
    ignorance, proof, truth, neglect, reality, disregard, information, fact, knowledge, abstention, disdain, measurement.
  • Other antonyms:
    demonstration, evidence, discovery, certainty.