Suspense (Noun)

Meaning 1

Excited anticipation of an approaching climax; "the play kept the audience in suspense".

Classification

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions.

Hypernyms

  • Expectancy

Meaning 2

Apprehension about what is going to happen.

Classification

Nouns denoting feelings and emotions.

Examples

  • The audience was on the edge of their seats, filled with suspense as the hero hung precariously from the cliff.
  • As I waited for the doctor to deliver the test results, I felt a growing sense of suspense that was almost unbearable.
  • The plot twist at the end of the movie was so unexpected that it left me in suspense for days, wondering what would happen next.
  • The characters in the novel were trapped in a creepy mansion, waiting for the killer to strike, their suspense building with every creak of the floorboards.
  • The silence that followed the ring of the doorbell was filled with suspense as I waited to see who was standing on the other side.

Hypernyms

  • Apprehensiveness
  • Dread

Meaning 3

An uncertain cognitive state; "the matter remained in suspense for several years".

Classification

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.

Hypernyms

  • Uncertainty
  • Dubiety
  • Incertitude
  • Dubiousness
  • Doubtfulness
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