Definitions for posit

posit pos·it

Spelling: [poz-it]
IPA: /ˈpɒz ɪt/

Posit is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 8 points.

You can make 69 anagrams from letters in posit (iopst).

Definitions for posit

noun

  1. something that is posited; an assumption; postulate.

verb (used with object)

  1. to place, put, or set.
  2. to lay down or assume as a fact or principle; postulate.

Origin of posit

1640-50; Latin positus, past participle of pōnere to place, put

Examples for posit

For how can he commend self-control and yet posit pleasure as the supreme good?

To posit that the war brings us closer to faith is a sleight of hand that makes fools of us all.

Now why should we not posit quantity among the primary genera?

We have to erase history and posit a Palestinian people that is, somehow, essentially different from other people.

There was no way to wound her so deeply as to posit its reality and identify it with her.

If so, we may at least posit that almost unbounded license must be allowed the pen which aims simply to raise a laugh.

House of Cards appears to posit that ruthlessness is next to godliness.

Let me posit here the ideal conditions for a morning pipe as I know them.

Advocates of intervention may want to posit the U.S. as the world's police.

You posit that talking about the aesthetics of scent in traditional aesthetic terms makes scent subservient to other disciplines.

Word Value for posit
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7

Words with friends

8

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