weening

noun

1. Presumption, imagination, supposition.

   countable, uncountable

   […] and if I get a scanty living in the way I do, it is because the credulity of the people require such practices to satisfy their weenings — they wish to know all sorts of things, […]

Where it comes from

From Middle English wening (“supposition, opinion, presumption, doubt”), from Old English wēning (“supposition, doubt, doubtful thought”), equivalent to ween + -ing.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry weening (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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