Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun speculativeness

2 senses of speculativeness

Sense 1
speculativeness -- (financial risk; "he rejected stocks that didn't pay dividends because of their speculativeness")
       => riskiness, peril -- (a state of danger involving risk)

Sense 2
speculativeness -- (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")
       => uncertainty, uncertainness, precariousness -- (being unsettled or in doubt or dependent on chance; "the uncertainty of the outcome"; "the precariousness of his income")