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Suspicion (Noun)

Meaning 1

Doubt about someone's honesty.

Classification

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.

Synonyms

  • Misgiving
  • Distrust
  • Mistrust

Hypernyms

  • Uncertainty
  • Incertitude
  • Dubiousness
  • Doubtfulness
  • Doubt

Related Words

  • Suspect (verb)
  • Suspicious (adjective)

Meaning 2

An impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong".

Classification

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.

Examples

  • Her years of working in law enforcement had honed her ability to recognize even the faintest glimmer of suspicion in the eyes of a suspect.
  • His unexpected behavior around the new policy sparked a growing suspicion within the management team that he might be planning to leave the company.
  • The lack of detailed records raised the researchers' suspicion that the previous team may have fabricated their findings.
  • As she walked through the abandoned house, she couldn't shake off the suspicion that someone had been there recently, watching her.
  • With a sudden jolt of suspicion, he realized that his wife might be hiding something from him after finding an unexplained letter in her desk drawer.

Synonyms

  • Intuition
  • Hunch

Hypernyms

  • Feeling
  • Opinion
  • Impression
  • Notion

Hyponyms

  • Heart
  • Bosom

Related Words

  • Suspect (verb)

Meaning 3

The state of being suspected; "he tried to shield me from suspicion".

Classification

Nouns denoting natural processes.

Hypernyms

  • Antagonism
  • Enmity

Related Words

  • Suspect (verb)

Meaning 4

Being of a suspicious nature; "his suspiciousness destroyed his marriage".

Classification

Nouns denoting attributes of people and objects.

Synonyms

  • Suspiciousness

Hypernyms

  • Distrustfulness
  • Mistrust
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