thesis
noun
[ ˈθiːsɪs ]
• a statement or theory that is put forward as a premise to be maintained or proved.
• "his central thesis is that psychological life is not part of the material world"
Similar:
theory,
contention,
argument,
line of argument,
proposal,
proposition,
premise,
assumption,
presumption,
hypothesis,
postulation,
surmise,
supposition,
belief,
idea,
notion,
opinion,
view,
theme,
subject,
topic,
text,
matter,
theorem,
• a long essay or dissertation involving personal research, written by a candidate for a university degree.
• "a doctoral thesis"
Similar:
dissertation,
essay,
paper,
treatise,
disquisition,
composition,
monograph,
study,
piece of writing,
theme,
• an unstressed syllable or part of a metrical foot in Greek or Latin verse.
Origin:
late Middle English (in thesis (sense 3)): via late Latin from Greek, literally ‘placing, a proposition’, from the root of tithenai ‘to place’.
