Conjecturing vs Surmise - What's the difference?
conjecturing | surmise |
The forming of conjectures.
* 1830 , Anna Maria Porter, The Barony (volume 3, page 460)
Thought, imagination, or conjecture, which may be based upon feeble or scanty evidence; suspicion; guess.
* Jonathan Swift
* 1919 ,
Reflection; thought; posit.
To conjecture, to opine or to posit with contestable premises.
As verbs the difference between conjecturing and surmise
is that conjecturing is while surmise is .As a noun conjecturing
is the forming of conjectures.conjecturing
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Verb
(head)Noun
(en noun)- The exhaustless conjecturings of that evening's full conversation, made such of the small party, as had hitherto been strangers, well acquainted with each other's turn of mind
surmise
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Noun
(en noun)- surmises of jealousy or of envy
- No man ought to be charged with principles he actually disowns, unless his practices contradict his profession; not upon small surmises .
- The meeting had been devoid of incident. No word had been said to give me anything to think about, and any surmises I might make were unwarranted. I was intrigued.
- (Shakespeare)