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Conjecture vs Foreguess - What's the difference?

conjecture | foreguess |

As nouns the difference between conjecture and foreguess

is that conjecture is a statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a guess while foreguess is a conjecture; an assumption.

As verbs the difference between conjecture and foreguess

is that conjecture is to guess; to venture an unproven idea while foreguess is to guess beforehand.

conjecture

English

Noun

  • (formal) A statement or an idea which is unproven, but is thought to be true; a .
    • I explained it, but it is pure conjecture whether he understood, or not.
  • (formal) A supposition based upon incomplete evidence; a hypothesis.
    • The physicist used his conjecture about subatomic particles to design an experiment.
  • (mathematics, philology) A statement likely to be true based on available evidence, but which has not been formally (l).
  • (obsolete) of signs and omens.

    • Synonyms

    * * See also

    Related terms

    * conject * conjectural

    Verb

    (conjectur)
  • (formal) To ; to venture an unproven idea.
    • I do not know if it is true; I am simply conjecturing here.
  • * South
    • Human reason can then, at the best, but conjecture what will be.

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    foreguess

    English

    Verb

  • To guess beforehand.
  • *1996 , Angus Wells, Exile's Challenge :
    • The rest—Rannach and Tekah, Yazte and Kahteney, Arcole—waited on him, on his response. He was, no matter his protestations, the Prophet, and they hesitated to foreguess him.
  • To forecast.
  • To anticipate; expect.
  • To conjecture; assume.
  • *1886 , Baron Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton, The Last of the barons :
    • " [...] He will be welcome there I foreguess ; for every northman is either or Warwick or for Lancaster; and the two must unite now, I trow."

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    Noun

    (foreguesses)
  • A conjecture; an assumption.
  • *1887 , The Scottish review:
    • [...] form of gold may be discovered, so far from being an outcome of superstitious ignorance, was a foreguess of genius, which has led to brilliant and momentous discoveries, of which we are nearer to the cradle than to the maturity.
    (Webster 1913)