hypothesize
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- hypothesise (non-Oxford British English)
Etymology
[edit]From hypothesis + -ize.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (UK) IPA(key): /haɪˈpɒθ.ɪ.saɪz/, /hɪˈpɒθ.ɪ.saɪz/, /həˈpɒθ.ɪ.saɪz/, /-ə.saɪz/
- (US) IPA(key): /haɪˈpɑː.θə.saɪz/
Audio (Mid-Atlantic US): (file)
Verb
[edit]hypothesize (third-person singular simple present hypothesizes, present participle hypothesizing, simple past and past participle hypothesized) (American spelling, Oxford British English)
- (transitive, intransitive) To assume or assert tentatively on uncertain grounds.
- Synonyms: hypotheticate, guess; see also Thesaurus:suppose
- 1996, Public Health Reports[1], U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Resources Administration:
- 2000, Stephen F. Knack, Social Capital and the Quality of Government: Evidence from the United States, page 11:
- Census response is thus a reasonable proxy for civicminded attitudes and cooperation that are hypothesized to improve governmental performance.
- 2007 December 29, Sanford Goldberg, “Must Differences in Cognitive Value be Transparent?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, :
- I don’t dispute that some cases of this sort—involving a subject who differentially doubts what, pretheoretically, we would take to be one and the same thought-content, entertained twice—might be best described by hypothesizing a difference in content.
Related terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]to believe or assert
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Further reading
[edit]- “hypothesize”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.