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From surmise + -sion, likely from the assumption that surmise cannot be used as a noun.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Today it means: An act of surmising; a guess or conjecture. Full definition →
From surmise + -sion, likely from the assumption that surmise cannot be used as a noun.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.