hypothesization

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English

Noun

hypothesization (countable and uncountable, plural hypothesizations)

  1. (formal) An act or process of hypothesizing, of forming a hypothesis or hypotheses, typically concerning a particular topic of research or basis for action.
    • 1976, Theodore Schwartz, editor, Socialization as Cultural Communication, University of California Press:
      The "doctrine of invariant sequence" is ...less a true doctrine than a special definition of cognitive development ..., less a dogma than the hypothesization of logically necessary culturally invariant temporal sequences in the way children change their minds...