Contemplative vs Speculative - What's the difference?
contemplative | speculative |
Inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative.
* 1873 , (John Stuart Mill), Autobiography ,
Pertaining especially to a contemplative Roman Catholic religious or one of the contemplative Roman Catholic religious orders.
* 1870 , (Charles Dickens), The Mystery of Edwin Drood ,
Relating to, or having the power of, contemplation.
Someone who has dedicated themselves to religious contemplation.
* 2009 , (Karen Armstrong), The Case for God , Vintage 2010, p. 112:
Characterized by speculation; based on guessing or unfounded opinions.
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*:"Don't dare laugh at us!" smiled his sister. "I wish we were back in Tenth Street. But so many children cameand the Tenth Street house wasn't half big enough; and a dreadful speculative builder built this house and persuaded Austin to buy it. Oh, dear, and here we are among the rich and great; and the steel kings and copper kings and oil kings and their heirs and dauphins. Do you like the house?"
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As adjectives the difference between contemplative and speculative
is that contemplative is inclined to contemplate; introspective and thoughtful; meditative while speculative is .As a noun contemplative
is someone who has dedicated themselves to religious contemplation.contemplative
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(en adjective)Chapter 5:
- Compared with the greatest poets, he may be said to be the poet of unpoetical natures, possessed of quiet and contemplative tastes. But unpoetical natures are precisely those which require poetic cultivation. This cultivation Wordsworth is much more fitted to give, than poets who are intrinsically far more poets than he.
Chapter 3:
- Whether the nuns of yore, being of a submissive rather than a stiff-necked generation, habitually bent their contemplative heads to avoid collision with the beams in the low ceilings of the many chambers of their House [...] may be matters of interest to its haunting ghosts (if any), but constitute no item in Miss Twinkleton's half-yearly accounts.
- contemplative faculties
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(en noun)- The contemplative must not expect exotic feelings, visions or heavenly voices; these did not come from God but from his own fevered imagination and would merely distract him from his true objective [...].
speculative
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(en adjective)England 2-2 Switzerland, passage=Tranquillo Barnetta was the grateful beneficiary of uncertain England defending and poor goalkeeping from Joe Hart as he twice saw speculative free-kicks end in the back of the net in the first half.}}