Home › Words › S › spectationspectation/spɛkˈteɪʃən/spectation means regard; aspect; appearance.Among words judged in Lexicurio's Arena, spectation ranks #3,412 of 42,747 for Qualifying.spectation is pronounced /spɛkˈteɪʃən/.EtymologyFrom Latin spectatio.nounRegard; aspect; appearance.e.g.“This simple spectation of the lungs is differenced from that which concomitates a pleurisy.” — 1672, Gideon Harvey, Morbus Anglicus, Or, The Anatomy of Consumptions:The act of watching something; observation.e.g.“the medical attaché is permitted to ease effortlessly from unwound spectation into a fully relaxed night's sleep, still right there in the recumbent recliner […]” — 1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 34:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).