speculativeness

1. 1.

   financial risk

   “he rejected stocks that didn't pay dividends because of their speculativeness”

   Broaderriskiness
2. 2.

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

   “her work is highly contentious because of its speculativeness and lack of supporting evidence”

   Broaderuncertainty

Other forms of speculativeness

plural

speculativenesses·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about speculativeness

What does speculativeness mean?

speculativeness means "financial risk". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in speculativeness?

speculativeness has 6 syllables: spe-cu-la-ti-ve-ness. The stress falls on "ti".

Is speculativeness a common word?

speculativeness is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.