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suspicion

noun
/səˈspɪʃ.ən/

Etymology

From Middle English suspecioun, borrowed from Latin suspīciō, suspīciōnem, from suspicere, from sub- (“up to”) with specere (“to look at”). Perhaps partly through the influence of Old French sospeçon (or rather the Anglo-Norman form suspecioun). Equivalent to suspect + -ion.

  1. derived from suspicio
  2. inherited from suspecioun

Definitions

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

    • His unruly hair was slicked down with water, and as Jessamy introduced him to Miss Brindle his face assumed a cherubic innocence which would immediately have aroused the suspicions of anyone who knew him.
    • "When it comes to strangers with guns," I told her, "I think suspicion is more likely to keep you alive than trust."

  2. The condition of being suspected.

  3. Uncertainty, doubt.

  4. ›+ 3 more definitions

    1. A trace, or slight indication.

      • a suspicion of a smile
      • The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion[…]of saturnine or sarcastic humor.
      • Keep hot for 3 minutes, then turn right side up, polish the top with a suspicion of butter, cut in quarters, and send to table.

    2. The imagining of something without evidence.

    3. To suspect

      To suspect; to have suspicions.

      • “Well, what’s more dangerous than coming here in the day time!—anybody would suspicion us that saw us.”
      • Mulvaney continued— "Whin I was full awake the palanquin was set down in a street, I suspicioned, for I cud hear people passin' an' talkin'. But I knew well I was far from home. […]
      • "I've been suspicioning here was where they got their information right along," the sheriff commented, and slipped the handcuffs on the landlord.

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Derived

Caesar's wife must be above suspicion, index of suspicion, sneaking suspicion, sneaky suspicion, suspect, suspicionable, suspicional, suspicionful, suspicionless, suspicious, undue suspicion, unsuspicion

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at suspicion. 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 suspicion. 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 suspicion

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