Lexic.us

Definition of Speculativeness

1. Noun. Financial risk. "He rejected stocks that didn't pay dividends because of their speculativeness"

2. Noun. The quality of being a conclusion or opinion based on supposition and conjecture rather than on fact or investigation. "Her work is highly contentious because of its speculativeness and lack of supporting evidence"

Definition of Speculativeness

1. Noun. The quality or state of being speculative. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Speculativeness

speculate speculated speculates speculating speculation speculations speculatist speculatists speculative speculative damages

speculative fiction speculative fictions speculative philosophies speculative philosophy speculatively speculativeness (current term) speculativity speculator speculatorial speculators

speculatory speculist speculists speculoos speculum speculum forceps speculums sped spede spee

Literary usage of Speculativeness

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The People's Bible: Discourses Upon Holy Scripture by Joseph Parker (1895)
"Take it that this is the reasoning of mere speculativeness. ... Yet there is a delight in speculativeness which puts its angry questions or its urgent ..."

2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1905)
"... have made him a Conservative in every thing,—that Honesty,nob speculativeness, enforced each change,—that he never stepped oft' any old ground of Faith, ..."

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