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suspicion
noun
1 suspicion
An impression that something might be the case.
synonyms: hunch, intuition.
Roget 920:
jealousy,
jealousness;
jaundiced eye;
envious suspicion,
suspicion;
green-eyed monster"
[Othello];
yellows;
Juno.
Roget 514:
supposition,
assumption,
assumed position,
postulation,
condition,
presupposition,
hypothesis,
blue sky hypothesis,
postulate,
postulatum [Lat.],
theory;
thesis,
theorem;
data;
proposition,
position;
proposal
etc.
(plan)
626;
presumption
etc.
(belief)
484;
divination.
conjecture;
guess,
guesswork,
speculation;
rough guess,
shot,
shot in the dark [Coll.];
conjecturality†;
surmise,
suspicion,
sneaking suspicion;
estimate,
approximation
(nearness)
197.
inkling,
suggestion,
hint,
intimation,
notion,
impression;
bare supposition,
vague supposition,
loose supposition,
loose suggestion.
association of ideas,
(analogy)
514.1;
metonym [Gramm.],
metonymy [Gramm.],
simile
(metaphor)
521.
conceit,
idea,
thought;
original idea,
invention
(imagination)
515.
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Roget 490:
knowledge;
cognizance,
cognition,
cognoscence†;
acquaintance,
experience,
ken [Scot.],
privity†,
insight,
familiarity;
comprehension,
apprehension;
recognition;
appreciation
etc.
(judgment)
480;
intuition;
conscience,
consciousness;
perception,
precognition;
acroamatics†.
light,
enlightenment;
glimpse,
inkling;
glimmer,
glimmering;
dawn;
scent,
suspicion;
impression
etc.
(idea)
453;
discovery
etc.
480.1.
system of knowledge,
body of knowledge;
science,
philosophy,
pansophy†;
acroama†;
theory,
aetiology†,
etiology;
circle of the sciences;
pandect†,
doctrine,
body of doctrine;
cyclopedia,
encyclopedia;
school
etc.
(system of opinions)
484.
tree of knowledge;
republic of letters
etc.
(language)
560.
erudition,
learning,
lore,
scholarship,
reading,
letters;
literature;
book madness;
book learning,
bookishness;
bibliomania†,
bibliolatry†;
information,
general information;
store of knowledge
&c.;
education
etc.
(teaching)
537;
culture,
menticulture†,
attainments;
acquirements,
acquisitions;
accomplishments;
proficiency;
practical knowledge
etc.
(skill)
698;
liberal education;
dilettantism;
rudiments
etc.
(beginning)
66.
deep knowledge,
profound knowledge,
solid knowledge,
accurate knowledge,
acroatic knowledge†,
acroamatic knowledge†,
vast knowledge,
extensive knowledge,
encyclopedic knowledge,
encyclopedic learning;
omniscience,
pantology†.
march of intellect;
progress of science,
advance of science,
advance of learning;
schoolmaster abroad.
[person who knows much]
scholar
etc.
492.
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Dutch: verdenking
Polish: przeczucie
2 suspicion
Doubt about someone's honesty.
synonyms: distrust, misgiving, mistrust.
Roget 485:
unbelief,
disbelief,
misbelief;
discredit,
miscreance†;
infidelity
etc.
(irreligion)
989†;
dissent
etc.
489;
change of opinion
etc.
484;
retraction
etc.
607.
doubt
etc.
(uncertainty)
475;
skepticism,
scepticism,
misgiving,
demure;
distrust,
mistrust,
cynicism;
misdoubt†,
suspicion,
jealousy,
scruple,
qualm;
onus probandi [Lat.].
incredibility,
incredibleness;
incredulity.
[person who doubts]
doubter,
skeptic,
cynic. ;
unbeliever
etc.
487.
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Roget 860:
fear,
timidity,
diffidence,
want of confidence;
apprehensiveness,
fearfulness
etc.
adj.;
solicitude,
anxiety,
care,
apprehension,
misgiving;
feeze [U.S.];
mistrust
etc.
(doubt)
485;
suspicion,
qualm;
hesitation
etc.
(irresolution)
605.
nervousness,
restlessness
etc.
adj.;
inquietude,
disquietude,
worry,
concern;
batophobia†;
heartquake†;
flutter,
trepidation,
fear and trembling,
perturbation,
tremor,
quivering,
shaking,
trembling,
throbbing heart,
palpitation,
ague fit,
cold sweat;
abject fear
etc.
(cowardice)
862;
mortal funk,
heartsinking†,
despondency;
despair
etc.
859.
fright;
affright,
affrightment†;
boof alarm [U.S.],
dread,
awe,
terror,
horror,
dismay,
consternation,
panic,
scare,
stampede
(of horses).
intimidation,
terrorism,
reign of terror.
[Object of fear]
bug bear,
bugaboo;
scarecrow;
hobgoblin
etc.
(demon)
980;
nightmare,
Gorgon,
mormo†,
ogre,
Hurlothrumbo†,
raw head and bloody bones,
fee-faw-fum,
bete noire [Fr.],
enfant terrible [Fr.].
alarmist
etc.
(coward)
862.
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Roget 487:
incredulousness†,
incredulity;
skepticism,
pyrrhonism†;
want of faith
etc.
(irreligion)
989†.
suspiciousness
etc.
adj.;
scrupulosity;
suspicion
etc.
(unbelief)
485.
mistrust,
cynicism.
unbeliever,
skeptic,
cynic;
misbeliever. 1,
pyrrhonist;
heretic
etc.
(heterodox)
984.
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Dutch: verdenking, argwaan koesteren, achterdocht, argwaan, suspicie, wantrouwen
3 suspicion
The state of being suspected.
4 suspicion
Being of a suspicious nature.
synonym: suspiciousness.
Dutch: achterdocht
Polish: podejrzliwość
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