'Suspicion' definitions:
Definition of 'suspicion'
(from WordNet)
noun
An impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong" [syn: intuition, hunch, suspicion]
noun
noun
The state of being suspected; "he tried to shield me from suspicion"
noun
Being of a suspicious nature; "his suspiciousness destroyed his marriage" [syn: suspicion, suspiciousness]
Definition of 'Suspicion'
From: GCIDE
- Suspicion \Sus*pi"cion\, v. t. To view with suspicion; to suspect; to doubt. [Obs. or Low] --South. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Suspicion'
From: GCIDE
- Suspicion \Sus*pi"cion\, n. [OE. suspecioun, OF. souspe[,c]on, F. soup[,c]on, L. suspectio a looking up to, an esteeming highly, suspicion, fr. suspicere to look up, to esteem, to mistrust. The modern form suspicion in English and French is in imitation of L. suspicio mistrust, suspicion. See Suspect, and cf. Suspicious.]
- 1. The act of suspecting; the imagination or apprehension of the existence of something (esp. something wrong or hurtful) without proof, or upon very slight evidence, or upon no evidence. [1913 Webster]
- Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds, they ever fly by twilight. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
- 2. Slight degree; suggestion; hint. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]
- The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion . . . of saturnine or sarcastic humor. --A. W. Ward. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Jealousy; distrust; mistrust; diffidence; doubt. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'suspicion'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- apprehension,
- apprehensiveness,
- bare suggestion,
- broad hint,
- cageyness,
- cast,
- caution,
- cautiousness,
- chariness,
- clue,
- concern,
- cue,
- dash,
- diffidence,
- disinclination to believe,
- distrust,
- distrustfulness,
- doubt,
- doubtfulness,
- dubiety,
- dubiousness,
- feeling,
- flavor,
- foreboding,
- forefeeling,
- funny feeling,
- gentle hint,
- gesture,
- gleam,
- glimmer,
- glimmering,
- guardedness,
- half an idea,
- half-belief,
- hazy idea,
- hesitation,
- hint,
- hunch,
- idea,
- implication,
- impression,
- incertitude,
- inconvincibility,
- incredulity,
- index,
- indication,
- infusion,
- inkling,
- innuendo,
- insinuation,
- intimation,
- intuition,
- intuitive impression,
- kick,
- leeriness,
- lick,
- look,
- mere notion,
- misdoubt,
- misgiving,
- mistrust,
- mistrustfulness,
- nod,
- notion,
- nudge,
- preapprehension,
- premonition,
- presentiment,
- prompt,
- Pyrrhonism,
- qualm,
- question,
- resistiveness to belief,
- sauce,
- scent,
- scepticism,
- scintilla,
- scruple,
- scrupulousness,
- seasoning,
- second thoughts,
- self-doubt,
- shade,
- shadow,
- shadow of doubt,
- sign,
- signal,
- sip,
- skepticalness,
- skepticism,
- smack,
- smattering,
- smell,
- sneaking suspicion,
- soupcon,
- spark,
- spice,
- spoor,
- sprinkling,
- suggestion,
- sup,
- suspect,
- suspiciousness,
- symptom,
- tad,
- taint,
- taste,
- telltale,
- tempering,
- thought,
- tinct,
- tincture,
- tinge,
- tint,
- total skepticism,
- touch,
- tough-mindedness,
- trace,
- track,
- uncertainty,
- unconvincibility,
- uncredulousness,
- unpersuadability,
- unpersuasibility,
- vague feeling,
- vague idea,
- vestige,
- wariness,
- whiff,
- whisper,
- wink,
- wonder