It is founded on supposition.
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Supposition
//ˌsʌpəˈzɪʃən//
Synonyms for "supposition" (103 found)
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49 translations across 29 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ὑπόληψις noun (assumption)
Arabic
2 entries- اِفْتِرَاض noun (assumption)
- فَرْضِيَّة noun (assumption)
Azerbaijani
4 entries- ehtimal noun (assumption)
- fərz noun (assumption)
- fərziyyə noun (assumption)
- güman noun (assumption)
Belarusian
1 entries- прыпушчэ́нне noun (assumption)
Bulgarian
1 entries- предположе́ние noun (assumption)
Catalan
1 entries- suposició noun (assumption)
Chinese Mandarin
2 entries- 假定 noun (assumption)
- 設想 /设想 noun (assumption)
Czech
1 entries- předpoklad noun (assumption)
Dutch
1 entries- veronderstelling noun (assumption)
Esperanto
1 entries- supozo noun (assumption)
Finnish
1 entries- oletus noun (assumption)
French
3 entries- conjecture noun (assumption)
- hypothèse noun (assumption)
- supposition noun (assumption)
German
3 entries- Annahme noun (assumption)
- Annehmen noun (the act or an instance of supposing)
- Supposition noun (assumption)
Greek
1 entries- υπόθεση noun (assumption)
Hungarian
1 entries- feltevés noun (assumption)
Irish
4 entries- dóigh noun (assumption)
- forshuíomh noun (the act or an instance of supposing)
- glacan noun (assumption)
- toimhde noun (the act or an instance of supposing)
Italian
2 entries- presupposto noun (assumption)
- supposizione noun (assumption)
Japanese
2 entries- 想像 noun (assumption)
- 推測 noun (assumption)
Korean
2 entries- 상상 noun (assumption)
- 추측 noun (assumption)
Māori
1 entries- pūmāramarama noun (assumption)
Ottoman Turkish
1 entries- تقدیر noun (assumption)
Polish
1 entries- założenie noun (assumption)
Portuguese
1 entries- suposição noun (assumption)
Romanian
3 entries- presupunere noun (assumption)
- presupunere noun (the act or an instance of supposing)
- supoziție noun (assumption)
Russian
1 entries- предположе́ние noun (assumption)
Slovak
1 entries- predpoklad noun (assumption)
Spanish
1 entries- suposición noun (assumption)
Swedish
1 entries- supposition noun (assumption)
Ukrainian
1 entries- припу́щення noun (assumption)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
This supposition, that the Earth is immobile, was completely untrue.
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That's a supposition, not a fact.
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Despite a flattering supposition to the contrary, people come readily to terms with power. There is little reason to think that the power of the great bankers, while they were assumed to have it, was much resented. But as the ghosts of numerous tyrants, from Julius Caesar to Benito Mussolini will testify, people are very hard on those who, having had power, lose it or are destroyed. Then anger at past arrogance is joined with contempt for the present weakness. The victim or his corpse is made to suffer all available indignities.
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