feeling vs hypothesis

feeling

noun
  • Intuition. 

  • An opinion, an attitude. 

  • Emotional state or well-being. 

  • Emotion; impression. 

  • Sensation, particularly through the skin. 

  • Emotional attraction or desire. 

adj
  • Emotionally sensitive. 

  • Expressive of great sensibility; attended by, or evincing, sensibility. 

hypothesis

noun
  • An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation. 

  • Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation. As a scientific term of art, see the attached quotation. Compare to theory, and quotation given there. 

  • The antecedent of a conditional statement. 

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