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Pronunciation: [θˈi͡əɹa͡ɪzɪz] (IPA)

The word "theorizes" refers to the act of formulating a theory or making a hypothesis. Some synonyms for "theorizes" include speculates, postulates, conjectures, surmises, hypothesizes, and supposes. These words all suggest a process of analyzing evidence and drawing conclusions based on logical reasoning. To speculate means to make an educated guess, while postulating suggests making a claim without evidence. Conjecturing implies making a guess without much evidence, while surmising suggests making an inference based on intuition and observation. Hypothesizing means offering an explanation, while supposing means making an assumption without any evidence. These synonyms all suggest different degrees of certainty and have subtle differences in meaning.
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He theorizes too much.
"Melomaniacs"
James Huneker
Yet this gentleman dogmatizes and theorizes on all geological formations, and can tell the whole history of the geology of our planet, from the first moment when it was bowled by the hand of The Omnipotent in the immensity of space, of suns and systems!
"Travels in the Great Desert of Sahara, in the Years of 1845 and 1846"
James Richardson
Human thought, also, which sums up this life and theorizes upon it, has little by little been plundered of its theological and metaphysical hypotheses to take refuge finally in this prosaic assertion: in the interpretation of history we must limit ourselves to the objective co-ordination of the determining conditions and of the determined effects."
"Socialism: Positive and Negative"
Robert Rives La Monte

Famous quotes with Theorizes

  • As to the origin of life, any life, I thought, we remain ignorant. Our science theorizes about the beginning of the cosmos or the birth of life. Our religions postulate endless versions of a man-God, hardly more rational than we are, as the Creator. In the past I sometimes thought that maybe life is meaningless after all. Then I'd think that maybe the Seth material is a kind of cosmic poppycock -- the chemical composition of my mind somehow intelligent enough to understand the irony of its own meaninglessness, then spinning desperate yarns, as many psychologists would say; futile fantasies leading nowhere. But then I'd think that a brain that could conceive or order somehow had to emerge from a greater order. Besides that, earlier I hadn't realized (I thought, feeling better) that science and religion had spun some pretty weird yarns themselves, and if poppycock was being measured on a scale of one to ten, in my book anyhow they'd each get a twelve and a gold star.
    Jane Roberts
  • An artist who theorizes about his work is no longer artist but critic.
    H. G. Wells
  • Religion, Wilson theorizes, is so prevalent because it provided a definite evolutionary advantage for those early humans who adopted it. ...when our apelike ancestors gradually became more intelligent, individuals could rationally begin to question the power of their leader. ...a dangerous, dissipative force on the tribe. ...Thus, according to Wilson, a selective pressure was placed on intelligent apes to suspend reason and blindly obey the leader and his myths...
    E. O. Wilson

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