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Conjecture vs Guessing - What's the difference?

conjecture | guessing |

As verbs the difference between conjecture and guessing

is that conjecture is while guessing is .

As a noun guessing is

the act of making a guess; estimate or prediction; foresight.

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

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    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.

    guessing

    English

    Noun

    (guessings)
  • The act of making a guess; estimate or prediction; foresight
  • Verb

    (head)
  • Derived terms

    * guessing game