guesswork
/ˈɡɛswəːk
/noun [mass noun]
The process or results of guessing: answering this question will involve you in a certain amount of guesswork...
- So there's a certain amount of guesswork or predicting that goes into it.
- We don't, but we cannot go to war on guesswork, hypothesis and speculation.
- While there is a fair bit of guesswork and assumption involved, parties reckon they can narrow down who voted for them and who didn't.
Synonyms
guessing, conjecture, surmise, supposition, assumption, presumption, suspicion, speculation, hypothesizing, theorizing, prediction, expectation;
approximations, rough calculations;
feelings, hunches
informal guesstimates
North American informal ballpark figures