Phrase Hound found 11 phrases and 8 compound words that contain speculative. The most common are listed below. Open speculative in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 11
- speculative fictionA class of fiction involving fantastic, supernatural, or futuristic elements, including fantasy, horror, and science fiction, dealing with worlds, themes, and characters not part of everyday life.
- speculative philosophyPhilosophy, especially traditional metaphysical philosophy, which makes claims that cannot be verified by everyday experience of the physical world or by a scientific method.
- speculative applicationAn application for a job with an employer who is not currently advertising any vacancies.
- speculative damagesClaims made by a plaintiff for losses that may occur in the future, but are highly improbable. They can not be used as a basis for recovery in tort or contract cases.
- speculative evolutionA subgenre of science fiction and an artistic movement focused on hypothetical scenarios in the evolution of life.
- speculative realismA movement in contemporary philosophy that defines itself loosely in its stance of metaphysical realism against the dominant forms of post-Kantian philosophy (or what it terms correlationism).
- speculative materialismA form of new materialism that eliminates constructivism and creates a new materialist view of a world whose material objects are no longer considered as passive, but an aggregation or assembly of pluralities.
- speculative applicationsplural of speculative application: An application for a job with an employer who is not currently advertising any vacancies.
- speculative philosophiesplural of speculative philosophy: Philosophy, especially traditional metaphysical philosophy, which makes claims that cannot be verified by everyday experience of the physical world or by a scientific method.
- speculative fictionsplural of speculative fiction: A class of fiction involving fantastic, supernatural, or futuristic elements, including fantasy, horror, and science fiction, dealing with worlds, themes, and characters not part of everyday life.
- Speculative MasonryFreemasonry, as distinct from masonry in its ordinary sense relating to construction.
Compound words 8
- speculativismAn approach based on speculation rather than any formal method.
- antispeculativeOpposing speculation.
- hyperspeculativeExtremely speculative.
- nonspeculativeNot speculative.
- overspeculativeExcessively speculative.
- speculativenessThe quality or state of being speculative.
- speculativityThe quality or state of being speculative.
- unspeculativeNot speculative.