Exact Match:
- theory
- a belief that can guide behavior; "the architect has a theory that more is less"; "they killed him on the theory that dead men tell no tales"
- a well-substantiated explanation of some aspect of the natural world; an organized system of accepted knowledge that applies in a variety of circumstances to explain a specific set of phenomena; "theories can incorporate facts and laws and tested hypotheses"; "true in fact and theory"
Synonyms:
- apprehension,
- assumption,
- attitude,
- base,
- basis,
- body of theory,
- climate of opinion,
- common belief,
- community sentiment,
- conceit,
- concept,
- conception,
- conclusion,
- conjecture,
- consensus gentium,
- consideration,
- estimate,
- estimation,
- ethos,
- explanation,
- eye,
- fancy,
- feeling,
- general belief,
- grounds,
- guess,
- guesswork,
- harmonics,
- harmony,
- hunch,
- hypothesis,
- idea,
- image,
- imago,
- impression,
- intellectual object,
- judgment,
- lights,
- melodics,
- memory-trace,
- mental image,
- mental impression,
- mind,
- music,
- music theory,
- musicality,
- musicography,
- musicology,
- mystique,
- notion,
- observation,
- opinion,
- perception,
- perhaps,
- personal judgment,
- point of view,
- popular belief,
- position,
- posture,
- premise,
- presentiment,
- presumption,
- prevailing belief,
- public belief,
- public opinion,
- reaction,
- recept,
- reflection,
- representation,
- rhythmics,
- sentiment,
- sight,
- speculation,
- stance,
- supposal,
- suppose,
- supposition,
- surmise,
- suspicion,
- tentative explanation,
- theoretical structure,
- there,
- thinking,
- thither,
- thitherward,
- thought,
- understanding,
- unified theory,
- view,
- way of thinking,
- yon,
- yonder