different between speculation vs synopsis

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French speculation (compare French spéculation), from Late Latin specul?ti?, specul?ti?nem, from Latin speculor.Morphologically speculate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sp?kj??le???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n
• Hyphenation: spec?u?la?tion

Noun

speculation (countable and uncountable, plural speculations)

1. The process of thinking or meditating on a subject.
   • 2012, Caroline Davies, Duke and Duchess of Cambridge announce they are expecting first baby (in The Guardian, 3 December 2012)[1]

     The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge have ended months of intense speculation by announcing they are expecting their first child, but were forced to share their news earlier than hoped because of the Duchess's admission to hospital on Monday.

2. (philosophy) The act or process of reasoning a priori from premises given or assumed.
3. A conclusion to which the mind comes by speculating; mere theory; notion; conjecture.
4. (business, finance) An investment involving higher-than-normal risk in order to obtain a higher-than-normal return.
5. The act or practice of buying land, goods, shares, etc., in expectation of selling at a higher price, or of selling with the expectation of repurchasing at a lower price; a trading on anticipated fluctuations in price, as distinguished from trading in which the profit expected is the difference between the retail and wholesale prices, or the difference of price in different markets.
   • 1776, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

     Sudden fortunes, indeed, are sometimes made in such places, by what is called the trade of speculation.

   • 1883, Francis Amasa Walker, Political Economy

     Speculation, while confined within moderate limits, is the agent for equalizing supply and demand, and rendering the fluctuations of price less sudden and abrupt than they would otherwise be.

6. Examination by the eye; view.
7. (obsolete) Power of sight.
8. A card game in which the players buy from one another trumps or whole hands, upon a chance of getting the highest trump dealt, which entitles the holder to the pool of stakes.
9. (programming) The process of anticipating which branch of code will be chosen and executing it in advance.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:supposition

Derived terms

• "on speculation" (on spec) Creating a work with the hope of selling it, as opposed to creating a work "on commission" for hire.

Translations

Anagrams

• peculations, placentious, spinoculate

English

Etymology

From Late Latin synopsis, itself from Ancient Greek ??????? (súnopsis), from ??? (sún, “with or whole”) + ???? (ópsis, “view”) meaning whole view

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /s??n?ps?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /s??n?ps?s/

Noun

synopsis (plural synopses)

1. (authorship) A brief summary of the major points of a written work, either as prose or as a table; an abridgment or condensation of a work.
2. A reference work containing brief articles that taken together give an overview of an entire field.
3. (Orthodoxy) A prayer book for use by the laity of the church.

Synonyms

• (brief summary): abridgment, abstract, conspectus, outline, overview, summary

Related terms

• synoptic
• synoptical
• synoptically
• synoptist

Translations

See also

• bird's-eye view

Further reading

• synopsis in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• synopsis in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Finnish

Noun

synopsis

1. synopsis

Declension

Synonyms

• tiivistelmä

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /si.n?p.sis/

Noun

synopsis m or f (plural synopsis)

1. A general overview or synoptic table of a topic.
2. (media) Plot summary of a movie.

Further reading

• “synopsis” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Latin

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ???????? (súnopsis, “shared view; estimate”).

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /sy?nop.sis/, [s???n?ps??s?]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /si?nop.sis/, [si?n?psis]

Noun

synopsis f (genitive synopsis or synopse?s or synopsios); third declension

1. list
2. synopsis

Declension

Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).

¹Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.

Descendants

• English: synopsis
• French: synopsis
• Italian: sinossi
• Spanish: sinopsis
• Portuguese: sinopse

References

• synopsis in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• synopsis in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette