speculations
- 1Plural of speculation.
The committee dismissed his speculations as lacking any solid evidence.
Risky speculations in the housing market cost several investors their savings.
Note
Counting turns an activity into its results: each item in the plural is one conjecture or one risky venture. Two live meanings share the spelling, theories held without firm proof and investments chasing an outsized return, so the surrounding words decide, as in wild speculations about a motive versus speculations in property. The older senses of sight and looking are obsolete, so the plural never means 'glances' today.
speculations is a form of speculation
speculation, noun: An idea or conclusion reached by guessing rather than from solid evidence; mere theory or conjecture. Full entry
- Forms
- speculationspeculations plural
- Spelling
- speculation → speculations: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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