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SPECULATIVENESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does speculativeness mean? 

SPECULATIVENESS (noun)
  The noun SPECULATIVENESS has 2 senses:

1. financial riskplay

2. the quality of being a conclusion or opinion based on supposition and conjecture rather than on fact or investigationplay

  Familiarity information: SPECULATIVENESS used as a noun is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SPECULATIVENESS (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Financial risk

Classified under:

Nouns denoting stable states of affairs

Context example:

he rejected stocks that didn't pay dividends because of their speculativeness

Hypernyms ("speculativeness" is a kind of...):

peril; riskiness (a state of danger involving risk)

Derivation:

speculative (not financially safe or secure)


Sense 2

Meaning:

The quality of being a conclusion or opinion based on supposition and conjecture rather than on fact or investigation

Classified under:

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects

Context example:

her work is highly contentious because of its speculativeness and lack of supporting evidence

Hypernyms ("speculativeness" is a kind of...):

precariousness; uncertainness; uncertainty (being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance)

Derivation:

speculative (not based on fact or investigation)


 Learn English with... Proverbs 
"Money talks." (English proverb)

"The truth prevails like oil over water." (Albanian proverb)

"I'm already drowning so why should I fear getting wet?" (Arabic proverb)

"He who has money and friends, turns his nose at justice." (Corsican proverb)



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