Noun
The act of speculating.
Examination by the eye; view.
Mental view of anything in its various aspects and relations; contemplation; intellectual examination.
The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
Any business venture in involving unusual risks, with a chance for large profits.
A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; view; notion; conjecture.
Power of sight.
A game at cards in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
Source: Webster's dictionaryFor the merchant, even honesty is a financial speculation. Charles Baudelaire
If the world were good for nothing else, it is a fine subject for speculation. William Hazlitt
I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts. Albert Einstein
Homeric mind is ingenuity, practical intelligence. There is no Rodin-like deep thinking, no mathematical or philosophical speculation. Odysseus thinks with his hands. Camille Paglia
Speculation in land may be necessary to capitalism, but speculative orgies periodically become a quagmire of destruction for capital itself. David Harvey
There was a long history of speculation that in quantum gravity, unlike Einstein's classical theory, it might be possible for the topology of spacetime to change. Edward Witten