仮想|かそうkasou[0]heiban (flat)

1. suru verb, transitive verb, no-adjectiveimagination; supposition; virtual; potential (enemy)
   小中学生しょうちゅうがくせいなんて、まだまだ善悪ぜんあくの見分みわけも、現実げんじつと仮想かそうの見分みわけもつかない。↗

   Elementary and primary school children don't yet know good from evil or reality from fiction.

• Synonym仮定かていWrittenA written noun for provisionally setting a condition or premise, as in 「〜と仮定する」; 「仮想」 also covers virtual things, as in 「仮想空間」.
• Synonym想像そうぞうNeutralA neutral noun for imagination, the everyday staple, as in 「想像力」; 「仮想」 is more a rational act of setting something up and mostly forms 「仮想〜」 compounds.
• Synonym想定そうていWrittenA written noun for presupposing a scenario, as in 「想定外」, with a planning or contingency feel; 「仮想」 centers on virtual, imagined objects.
• RelatedみなすNeutralA verb: to regard or treat as, as in 「欠席と見なす」. It judges something to be the case, while 「仮想」 is about things deliberately conceived as fictional or virtual.
• Related憶測おくそくWrittenA written-style noun for guessing on shaky grounds, often with a negative shade, as in 「憶測を呼ぶ」; 「仮想」 is deliberate conception, not a guess.
• Related推定すいていWrittenWritten noun for inferring from evidence or circumstances, leaning legal or academic; 「仮想」 is provisionally conceiving something regardless of whether it is true.
• Related推測すいそくNeutralA neutral noun for inferring from what is known, common in daily use; 「仮想」 is not inference but deliberately imagining a situation.
• Related予測よそくWrittenA written noun for predicting the future, forward-looking, as in 「需要予測」; 「仮想」 assumes a scenario regardless of truth rather than projecting an outcome.
• Related推察すいさつWrittenA written noun for surmising situations, causes, or another's feelings from the circumstances, as in 「事情を推察する」; 「仮想」 is conceiving, not inferring.
• Related推論すいろんWrittenA written noun for logical reasoning from facts, academic in flavor, as in 「推論を重ねる」; 「仮想」 is first setting up a scenario.
• Related推量すいりょうWrittenA written noun for conjecture, also the grammatical term for conjectural usage; 「仮想」 is deliberate conception, not a guess.
• Related思い描くおもいえがくNeutralA verb for picturing a scene in your mind, whether pleasant, worrying, or ordinary; 「仮想」 leans toward rationally assuming a situation.
• Antonym現実げんじつNeutralA neutral noun for the facts actually before you; the direct opposite of virtual, imagined 「仮想」, as in 「仮想現実」 versus 「現実」.
• Antonym実在じつざいWrittenA written noun for actual existence, as in 「実在の人物」; it stands opposite to the imagined, fictional nature of 「仮想」.

Use 「仮想」 for things deliberately conceived as fictional or virtual, as in 「仮想通貨」 and 「仮想敵」. For assuming a condition pick 「仮定」, for preset scenarios 「想定」, for imagination 「想像」, for inferring 「推測」, and for reality 「現実」.

Usage comparisons are AI-assisted and cross-checked by multiple models; for study reference only

1. 実際じっさいには、そうではないが（あるいは、そうであるか分わからないが）、仮かりにそうだと考かんがえてみること。仮かりに想定そうていすること。
2. 実際じっさいには、そうではないが、そうだと考かんがえて差し支さしつかえないこと。実質的じっしつてきにそうであること。
3. 実際じっさいにそうであるかは分わからないが、そうだと考かんがえると説明せつめいがつくこと。
4. 仮かりに想定そうていする。