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Noun: speculativeness
  1. Financial risk
    "he rejected stocks that didn't pay dividends because of their speculativeness"
     
  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"

Derived forms: speculativenesses

See also: speculative

Type of: peril, precariousness, riskiness, uncertainness, uncertainty

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