SUSPICION

suspicion, suspiciousness

(noun) being of a suspicious nature; “his suspiciousness destroyed his marriage”

misgiving, mistrust, distrust, suspicion

(noun) doubt about someone’s honesty

intuition, hunch, suspicion

(noun) an impression that something might be the case; “he had an intuition that something had gone wrong”

suspicion

(noun) the state of being suspected; “he tried to shield me from suspicion”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

suspicion (countable and uncountable, plural suspicions)

The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.

The condition of being suspected.

Uncertainty, doubt.

A trace, or slight indication.

The imagining of something without evidence.

Verb

suspicion (third-person singular simple present suspicions, present participle suspicioning, simple past and past participle suspicioned)

(nonstandard, dialect) To suspect; to have suspicions.

Trivia

One of three common words ending in -cion, which are coercion, scion, and suspicion.

Source: Wiktionary

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Sus*pi"cion, n. Etym: [OE. suspecioun, OF. souspeçon, F. soupçon, 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. Suspicions among thoughts are like bats among birds, they ever fly by twilight. Bacon.

2. Slight degree; suggestion; hint. [Colloq.] The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion . . . of saturnine or sarcastic humor. A. W. Ward.

Syn.

– Jealousy; distrust; mistrust; diffidence; doubt.

Sus*pi"cion, v. t.

Definition: To view with suspicion; to suspect; to doubt. [Obs. or Low] South.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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