hypothesize
verbUK /haɪˈpɒθ.ɪ.saɪz/ · US /haɪˈpɑ.θəˌsaɪz/
Etymology From hypothesis + -ize.
- When hormones signal breast cells to divide more rapidly, scientists hypothesize, they increase breast cancer risk by causing precancerous or cancerous cells to multiply.1996, Public Health Reports, U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service, Health Resources Administration:
- Census response is thus a reasonable proxy for civicminded attitudes and cooperation that are hypothesized to improve governmental performance.2000, Stephen F. Knack, Social Capital and the Quality of Government: Evidence from the United States, page 11:
2 more examples
- Dahood hypothesizes an occurrence of a verb rihham ('to conceive, enwomb')2007, John Goldingay, David Payne, Isaiah 40-55 Vol 2: A Critical and Exegetical Commentary, Continuum International Publishing Group, →ISBN:
- I don’t dispute that some cases of this sort—involving a subject who differentially doubts what, pretheoretically, we would take to be one and the same thought-content, entertained twice—might be best described by hypothesizing a difference in content.2007 December 29, Sanford Goldberg, “Must Differences in Cognitive Value be Transparent?”, in Erkenntnis, volume 69, number 2, →DOI:
- Derived terms
- hypothesizer, unhypothesized
- Related terms
- hypothetical, hypothesizable