Synonyms of the word

supposal

• n. The act of supposing.
• n. That which is supposed; supposition; opinion.

assumption

• n. The act of assuming, or taking to or upon oneself; the act of taking up or adopting.
• n. The act of taking for granted, or supposing a thing without proof; a supposition; an unwarrantable claim.
• n. The thing supposed; a postulate, or proposition assumed; a supposition.
• n. (logic) The minor or second proposition in a categorical syllogism.
• n. The taking of a person up into heaven.
• n. A festival in honor of the ascent of the Virgin Mary into heaven.
• n. (rhetoric) Assumptio.

conjecture

• n. (formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess.
• n. (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
• n. (mathematics, philology) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not…
• n. (obsolete) Interpretation of signs and omens.
• v. (formal, intransitive) To guess; to venture an unproven idea.

hypothesis

• n. (sciences) Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem…
• n. (general) An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.
• n. (grammar) The antecedent of a conditional statement.

possibility

• n. The quality of being possible.
• n. A thing possible; that which may take place or come into being.
• n. An option or choice, usually used in context with future events.

supposition

• n. Something that is supposed; an assumption made to account for known facts, conjecture.
• n. The act or an instance of supposing.

theory

• n. (obsolete) Mental conception; reflection, consideration.
• n. (sciences) A coherent statement or set of ideas that explains observed facts or phenomena, or which sets…
• n. (uncountable) The underlying principles or methods of a given technical skill, art etc., as opposed to…
• n. (mathematics) A field of study attempting to exhaustively describe a particular class of constructs.
• n. A hypothesis or conjecture.
• n. (countable, logic) A set of axioms together with all statements derivable from them. Equivalently, a formal…