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suggestion

noun
/səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/UK/sə(ɡ)ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃən/US

Etymology

From Middle English suggestion, from Anglo-Norman suggestioun, sugestiun, from Latin suggestiō, from suggerō (“suggest”, verb), from Latin sub- (“from below, up”) + gerō (“to bring”). Equivalent to suggest + -ion. Related to English up-, cast.

  1. derived from sub- — “from below, up”
  2. derived from suggestiō
  3. derived from suggestioun
  4. inherited from suggestion

Definitions

  1. Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)

    • make a suggestion
    • I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.
    • Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.

  2. The act of suggesting.

    • Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.

  3. Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.

    • He’s somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or…

      The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.

    2. Information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence.

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Derived

autosuggestion, auto-suggestion, countersuggestion, desuggestion, heterosuggestion, hypnotic suggestion, missuggestion, narcosuggestion, nonsuggestion, posthypnotic suggestion, power of suggestion, self-suggestion, serving suggestion, suggestional, suggestion box, suggestionism, suggestionist

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at suggestion. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at suggestion. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at suggestion

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA