Postulation [noun]

Definition of Postulation:

assumption

Synonyms of Postulation:

● Shot

● Hunch

● Supposition

● Thesis

● Inference

● Theory

● Presumption

● Guess

● Acceptance

● Suspicion

● Postulate

● Surmise

● Conjecture

● Belief

● Expectation

● Hypothesis

● Fancy

● Premise

● Presupposition

● Posit

● Stab

● Assuming

● Shot in the dark

● Supposal

● Theorization

● Accepting

● Sneaking suspicion


Opposite/Antonyms of Postulation:

● Calculation

● Certainty

● Fact

● Truth

● Proof

● Disbelief

● Measurement

● Knowledge

● Reality


Sentence/Example of Postulation:

This postulation, says a close thinker, is the very foundation and essence of religion.

But Science has been reluctant to recognise that it is now entitled to dispense with the postulation of Matter.

But such esoteric combinations are not at all necessary for the postulation of wildly variant life forms.

Postulation and the verifying of postulates is thus a process of reciprocal discrimination and selection.

The postulation by him of molecular force at this point, is virtually an abandonment of the whole controversy.