supposition

Roget category 514

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.7. Creative thought
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#514. Supposition

noun

supposition, assumption, assumed position, postulation, condition, presupposition, hypothesis, blue sky hypothesis, postulate, postulatum [Lat.], theory — thesis, theorem — data — proposition, position — proposal etc. (plan) 626 — presumption etc. (belief) 484 — divination.
conjecture — guess, guesswork, speculation — rough guess, shot, shot in the dark [Coll.] — conjecturality^† — surmise, suspicion, sneaking suspicion — estimate, approximation (nearness) 197.
inkling, suggestion, hint, intimation, notion, impression — bare supposition, vague supposition, loose supposition, loose suggestion.
association of ideas, (analogy) 514.1; metonym [Gramm.], metonymy [Gramm.], simile (metaphor) 521.
conceit, idea, thought — original idea, invention (imagination) 515.

verb

suppose, conjecture, surmise, suspect, guess, divine — theorize — presume, presurmise^†, presuppose — assume, fancy, wis^†, take it — give a guess, speculate, believe, dare say, take it into one's head, take for granted — imagine etc. 515.
put forth — propound, propose — start, put a case, submit, move, make a motion — hazard out, throw out a suggestion, put forward a suggestion, put forward conjecture.
allude to, suggest, hint, put it into one's head.
suggest itself etc. (thought) 451 — run in the head etc. (memory) 505 — marvel if, wonder if, wonder whether.

adjective

supposing etc. v. — given, mooted, postulatory^† — assumed etc. v. — supposititious, suppositive^†, suppositious — gratuitous, speculative, conjectural, hypothetical, theoretical, academic, supposable, presumptive, putative — suppositional.
suggestive, allusive.

adverb

if, if so be — an — on the supposition etc. n. — ex hypothesi [Lat.] — in the case, in the event of — quasi, as if, provided — perhaps etc. (by possibility) 470 — for aught one knows.

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