Supposition

What do we mean by supposition?

The act of supposing. noun

Something supposed; an assumption. noun

The act and mental result of hypothetical inference; that act of mind by which a likelihood is admitted in a proposition on account of the truth of its consequences; a presumption. noun

The act and mental result of formulating a proposition, without reference to its truth or falsity, for the sake of tracing out its consequences; a hypothesis. noun

In logic, the way in which a name is to be understood in a given proposition, in reference to its standing for an object of this or that class. noun

Substitution. noun

See the adjectives. noun

The act of supposing, laying down, imagining, or considering as true or existing, what is known not to be true, or what is not proved. noun

That which is supposed; hypothesis; conjecture; surmise; opinion or belief without sufficient evidence. noun

Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture noun

The act or an instance of supposing noun

A message expressing an opinion based on incomplete evidence noun

A hypothesis that is taken for granted noun

The cognitive process of supposing noun

Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture.

The act or an instance of supposing.

Words that are spelled similarly to supposition:
supposition, opposition, apposition, superposition, suppositive, suppositious, seposition, suppositions, suppositor.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word supposition:
inheritance, variance, probable, hypothesis, infinite, consciousness, strengthened, enormous, correct, logic, elaborate, supposed, attraction, consequently, valid, cult, relation, scholars, archaeological, medieval, theory, originated, accounts, false, exists, origin, fact, universe, question, true, suggested, probably, confirmed, must, external, indicated, derived, showed, thing, things, might, supported, objects, evidence, contrast, knowledge, showing.

Words that rhyme with supposition:
disposition, commission, condition, position, transition, attrition, definition, mission, sedition, proposition, acquisition, intuition, composition, deposition, ambition, competition, volition, juxtaposition, cognition, addition, recognition, exposition, transmission, remission, expedition, nutrition, tradition, submission, partition, rendition, petition, admonition, requisition, opposition, fruition, omission, edition, apparition, physician, coalition, emission, admission, tuition, erudition, exhibition, contrition, inhibition, suspicion, premonition, technician, imposition, prohibition, permission, patrician, superstition, audition, ammunition, inquisition, repetition, politician, pediatrician, decommission, fission, abolition, titian, predisposition, demolition, ignition, clinician, dentition, mortician, musician, beautician, dietician, magician, electrician, optician, malnutrition, academician, in addition, intermission, precondition, decomposition, munition, extradition, presupposition, reposition, dietitian, obstetrician, commision, logician, rhetorician, recission, statistician, mathematician, tactician, theoretician, recondition, search and destroy mission, redefinition.

Adjectives that are often used to describe supposition:
such, latter, first, mere, reasonable, former, last, natural, false, probable, contrary, second, erroneous, common, general, very, pre, only, absurd, above, improbable, simple, original, impossible, third, pure, gratuitous, popular, possible, likely, plausible, bare, basic, opposite, negative, initial, unreasonable, extravagant, strange, rational, usual, arbitrary, monstrous, alternative, unlikely, necessary, extreme, charitable, fair, logical, favourable, following, fundamental, mistaken, theoretical, wild, determinate, vague, underlying, simplest, violent, tacit, distributive, idle, obvious, wrong, foregoing, groundless, unfounded, correct, fanciful, counterfactual, ridiculous, easy, incredible, ingenious, preposterous, hypothetical, widespread, vain, unwarranted.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective supposition:
suspension, man.

Consonant match to supposition:
seposition.

Words that sound like supposition:
supposition, seposition, suppositions, suppositious, deposition, apposition, suppositional, opposition, imposition, reposition, suppression, supersession, submission, repossession, superposition, supination, suppuration, self-possession, in opposition, separation, succession, seperation, supression, sezession, sibilation, septation, disposition, repetition, suspicion, superstition, sebastian, exposition, supplication, sebastion, supposing, substation, presupposition, depositions, soup kitchen, space mission, sublation, succision.