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Headcanon vs Conjecture - What's the difference?

headcanon | conjecture |

As a noun headcanon

is (fandom slang) elements and interpretations of a fictional universe accepted by an individual fan, but not found within or supported by the official canon.

As a verb conjecture is

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headcanon

English

Noun

(headcanons)
  • (fandom slang) Elements and interpretations of a fictional universe accepted by an individual fan, but not found within or supported by the official canon.
  • * 2012 , Maggie K, " Let's talk about socks: Gender performativity in Terry Pratchett's Monstrous Regiment", Queer Vertigo 2012 (University of Technology, Sydney), unknown date, page 17:
    • Technically, the social context of Borogravia is such that the actual external difference between a trans man and a woman disguised as a man is practically indiscernible – the technology level means they’re indistinguishable by the bodily modification standard (although now that I think about it, there's no reason Igors couldn't perform sex changes, and that's going in my headcanon now), and there does not appear to be a space in the language for self-identification.
  • * 2012 , Bea Huff, " Love the character, not the actor", Daily Nebraskan , Volume 111, Issue 151, 11 June 2012, page 3:
    • That wouldn't be so bad if it weren't for the fact that they just fill in the missing information with whatever headcanon (one's personal belief of what is true to the universe) they want instead of actually trying to find out more about the character.
  • * 2013 , Kristal Frenero, " Fifty shades of fan crazy", The Talon Newsmagazine (John A. Ferguson Senior High), Volume 10, Issue 2, February 2013, page 8:
    • Don't forget if they can write pages and pages and pages of “headcanon ” information for an already developed character, probably changing his or her already set personality or even expanding upon it.
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    • See also

    * fanon

    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.

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    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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