speculativeness
1speculativeness — noun 1. financial risk he rejected stocks that didn t pay dividends because of their speculativeness • Derivationally related forms: ↑speculative • Hypernyms: ↑riskiness, ↑peril 2. the quality of being a conclusion or opinion based on supposition …
2speculativeness — speculative ► ADJECTIVE 1) engaged in or based on conjecture rather than knowledge. 2) (of an investment) involving a high risk of loss. DERIVATIVES speculatively adverb speculativeness noun …
3Speculativeness — Speculative Spec u*la*tive (sp[e^]k [ u]*l[.a]*t[i^]v), a. [Cf. F. sp[ e]culatif, L. speculativus.] 1. Given to speculation; contemplative. [1913 Webster] The mind of man being by nature speculative. Hooker. [1913 Webster] 2. Involving, or formed …
4speculativeness — See speculatively. * * * …
5speculativeness — noun The quality or state of being speculative. Syn: speculativity …
6speculativeness — n. quality of being speculative; tendency to speculate …
7speculativeness — spec·u·la·tive·ness …
8Maurice (Shelley) — First page of the Maurice manuscript, with alla Signora Shelley at the bottom left and For Laurette from her friend Mrs Shelley at the top right Maurice, or the Fisher s Cot is a children s story by the Romantic writer Mary Shelley. Written in… …
9speculative — speculatively, adv. speculativeness, n. /spek yeuh lay tiv, leuh tiv/, adj. 1. pertaining to, of the nature of, or characterized by speculation, contemplation, conjecture, or abstract reasoning: a speculative approach. 2. theoretical, rather than …
10speculativity — noun The quality or state of being speculative. Syn: speculativeness …
