Speculative may refer to:

In arts and entertainment

* Speculative art (disambiguation) * Speculative fiction, which includes elements created out of human imagination, such as the science fiction and fantasy genres **

Speculative Fiction Group Speculative Fiction Group ( Persian: گروه ادبیات گمانه‌زن) formerly known as Fantasy Academy ( Persian:آکادمی فانتزی) is a Persian literature group whose main representation media is the website Fantasy Academy (www ...

, a Persian literature group whose website which is named Fantasy Academy **

Speculative poetry Speculative poetry is a genre of poetry that focusses on fantastic, science fictional and mythological themes. It is also known as science fiction poetry or fantastic poetry. It is distinguished from other poetic genres by being categorized by it ...

, a genre of poetry that focuses on fantastic, science fictional and mythological themes *

Speculative screenplay A spec script, also known as a speculative screenplay, is a non-commissioned and unsolicited screenplay. It is usually written by a screenwriter who hopes to have the script optioned and eventually purchased by a producer, production company, or ...

, or spec script, a non-commissioned, unsolicited screenplay * The Speculative Society, a Scottish Enlightenment society dedicated to public speaking and literary composition, founded in 1764

In computing

Speculative execution Speculative execution is an optimization technique where a computer system performs some task that may not be needed. Work is done before it is known whether it is actually needed, so as to prevent a delay that would have to be incurred by doing ...

, in computer systems is doing work, the result of which may not be needed. This performance optimization technique is used in pipelined processors and other systems * Speculative multithreading, a dynamic parallelization technique that depends on out-of-order execution to achieve speedup on multiprocessor CPUs. It is a kind of speculative execution that occurs at the thread level as opposed to the instruction level

In economics

* Speculation, the practice of engaging in risky transactions in an attempt to profit from fluctuations in market value **

Speculative attack In economics, a speculative attack is a precipitous selling of untrustworthy assets by previously inactive speculators and the corresponding acquisition of some valuable assets ( currencies, gold). The first model of a speculative attack was contai ...

, denoting precipitous acquisition of assets by previously inactive speculators **

Speculative demand The speculative or asset demand for money is the demand for highly liquid financial assets — domestic money or foreign currency — that is not dictated by real transactions such as trade or consumer spending, consumption expenditure. Speculative ...

, a demand for financial assets that is not dictated by real transactions such as trade or financing ** Speculative development, in real estate ** Speculative grade, a grade of bond below investment grade, having higher risk, but typically pay higher yield than better quality bonds ** Economic bubble, when assets trade at a price that far exceeds an asset's intrinsic value due to speculation

In linguistics

Speculative mood Speculative mood ( abbreviated ) is an epistemic grammatical mood found in some languages, which indicates that the utterance In spoken language analysis, an utterance is a continuous piece of speech, often beginning and ending with a clear paus ...

, a grammatical mood found in some languages *

Speculative grammarians The Modistae (Latin for Modists), also known as the speculative grammarians, were the members of a school of grammarian philosophy known as Modism or speculative grammar, active in northern France, Germany, England, and Denmark in the 13th and 14t ...

, members of a school of grammarian philosophy known as Modism, active in Europe in the 13th and 14th centuries *'' Speculative Grammarian'', a parody science journal

In philosophy

*Speculative philosophy, an aspect of Continental philosophy * Speculative realism, a movement in contemporary philosophy *

Speculative reason Speculative reason, sometimes called theoretical reason or pure reason, is theoretical (or logical, deductive) thought, as opposed to practical (active, willing) thought. The distinction between the two goes at least as far back as the ancient ...

, theoretical as opposed to practical thought

Other uses

* Speculative damages, in law, damages claimed by a plaintiff for losses that may occur in the future * Speculative fire, a military tactic of firing to draw enemy fire and confirm the enemy's presence * Speculative mason, in Freemasonry *

Speculative Period {{short description, Term describing archaeological methods in the early days of North American archaeology The Speculative Period (1492a.-1840a.) was a term created by Gordon Willey and Sabloff (1993:12-37) to describe the archaeological methods an ...