Conspiracy vs Hypothetical - What's the difference?
conspiracy | hypothetical |
The act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations.
(legal) An agreement between two or more persons to break the law at some time in the future.
A group of ravens.
(linguistics) A situation in which different phonological or grammatical rules lead to similar or related outcomes.
Based upon a hypothesis; conjectural
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(philosophy) conditional; contingent upon some hypothesis/antecedent
A hypothetical situation or proposition
As nouns the difference between conspiracy and hypothetical
is that conspiracy is the act of two or more persons, called conspirators, working secretly to obtain some goal, usually understood with negative connotations while hypothetical is a hypothetical situation or proposition.As an adjective hypothetical is
based upon a hypothesis; conjectural.conspiracy
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(wikipedia conspiracy)Noun
(conspiracies)Derived terms
* conspiracy of silence * conspiracy theoryhypothetical
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Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* conjectural * (contingent upon some hypothesis) conditionalAntonyms
* (actual) actual * (in philosophy) categoricalNoun
(en noun)- These hypotheticals serve no purpose until we have more information.