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speculativeness

NOUN
  1. the quality of being a conclusion or opinion based on supposition and conjecture rather than on fact or investigation
    her work is highly contentious because of its speculativeness and lack of supporting evidence
  2. financial risk
    he rejected stocks that didn't pay dividends because of their speculativeness

How To Use speculativeness In A Sentence

  • her work is highly contentious because of its speculativeness and lack of supporting evidence
  • Under the common-law rule, therefore, the crucial point is not the certainty or speculativeness of the wife's interest, but rather the precise word choices made by the drafter of the trust document.
  • he rejected stocks that didn't pay dividends because of their speculativeness
  • If a decent argument can be made, though, regarding "speculative" fiction's exclusive speculativeness-- or, at least, if it can delineate itself as a form in itself, then, ayun. More Issues Raised
  • The article and the dissertation decidedly follow such speculativeness.
  • She moved then to look at me, and I saw that her eyes held not the compassion I had feared, but a strange speculativeness, as if she questioned what I knew rather than what I felt. The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story
  • Even at that early period, before he mixed in the society of educated persons, there was a dash of speculativeness in his remarks, which gave a high degree of originality to his conversation; and he would sometimes, in a casual remark, throw a flash of light upon a subject, which called up a train of pregnant suggestions. Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson
  • The Fifth Circuit test requires assessment of 1) the nature of the plaintiff’s injury; 2) the directness or indirectness of the asserted injury; 3) the proximity or remoteness of the party to the alleged injurious conduct; 4) the speculativeness of the damages claim; and 5) the risk of duplicative damages or complexity in apportioning damages. Lanham Act doesn't cover competition with customers
  • His stories enthralled her with their ‘mixture of speculativeness, fantasy and gloominess.’
  • Pianist Cowley moved toward a more complex and subtle music with his Radio Silence album, a venture beginning with an almost free-improv speculativeness that turns into expansive, Bad Plus-like anthems, flamenco associations, and slowed-down funk. This week's new live music
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