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speculativeness

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The state of being speculative, or of consisting in speculation.

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  • noun The quality or state of being speculative.

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  • noun the quality of being a conclusion or opinion based on supposition and conjecture rather than on fact or investigation
  • noun financial risk

Etymologies

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speculative +‎ -ness

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Examples

  • Pianist Cowley moved toward a more complex and subtle music with his Radio Silence album, a venture beginning with an almost free-improv speculativeness that turns into expansive, Bad Plus-like anthems, flamenco associations, and slowed-down funk.

    This week's new live music 2011

  • If a decent argument can be made, though, regarding "speculative" fiction's exclusive speculativeness-- or, at least, if it can delineate itself as a form in itself, then, ayun.

    More Issues Raised 2008

  • She moved then to look at me, and I saw that her eyes held not the compassion I had feared, but a strange speculativeness, as if she questioned what I knew rather than what I felt.

    The Best Short Stories of 1917 and the Yearbook of the American Short Story Various 1915

  • Even at that early period, before he mixed in the society of educated persons, there was a dash of speculativeness in his remarks, which gave a high degree of originality to his conversation; and he would sometimes, in a casual remark, throw a flash of light upon a subject, which called up a train of pregnant suggestions.

    Lives of the Engineers The Locomotive. George and Robert Stephenson Samuel Smiles 1858

  • Quaker State-Slick 50, Inc., 165 F.3d 221 (3d Cir.1998) (opinion by then-Judge Alito), which assesses five factors: "(1) the nature of the plaintiff's alleged injury, (2) the directness or indirectness of the asserted injury, (3) the proximity or remoteness of the party to the alleged injurious conduct, (4) the speculativeness of the damages claim, and (5) the risk of duplicative damages or complexity in apportioning damages."

    McDonald's is lovin' it: Burger King franchisee lacks Lanham Act standing Rebecca Tushnet 2006

  • The Fifth Circuit test requires assessment of 1) the nature of the plaintiff’s injury; 2) the directness or indirectness of the asserted injury; 3) the proximity or remoteness of the party to the alleged injurious conduct; 4) the speculativeness of the damages claim; and 5) the risk of duplicative damages or complexity in apportioning damages.

    Archive 2009-08-01 Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • The Fifth Circuit test requires assessment of 1) the nature of the plaintiff’s injury; 2) the directness or indirectness of the asserted injury; 3) the proximity or remoteness of the party to the alleged injurious conduct; 4) the speculativeness of the damages claim; and 5) the risk of duplicative damages or complexity in apportioning damages.

    Lanham Act doesn't cover competition with customers Rebecca Tushnet 2009

  • 4 The court found that the speculativeness of the damages weighs heavily against standing.

    McDonald's is lovin' it: Burger King franchisee lacks Lanham Act standing Rebecca Tushnet 2006

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