Thinking vs Conjecture - What's the difference?

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Thinking is a related term of conjecture.

As verbs the difference between thinking and conjecture

is that thinking is while conjecture is .

As a noun thinking

is gerund of think.

thinking

English

Noun

(en-noun)

Gerund of think.

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Derived terms

* critical thinking * thinking man * wishful thinking

Verb

(head)

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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.

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