posit
to put forward an idea or hypothesis
TRANSLATION
postulieren
STATISTICS
IN THE PRESS
"Modern cosmologists posit brief surges of energy where you might have thought nothing was happening and there wasn't anything for it to happen to."
(Richard Kaplan in 'The Nothing That Is - A Natural History of Zero')
(Richard Kaplan in 'The Nothing That Is - A Natural History of Zero')
Did you
know?
WORDWISE: this is an interesting word - you can use it instead of "hypothesise" which can sound too intellectual, or "suggest" which can sometimes sound a bit weak. Example: "Let's posit that we really learned one new word every weekday - that would amount to 300+ every year"
