Noun: suspicion su'spi-shun
- An impression that something might be the case
"he had a suspicion that something had gone wrong";
- intuition, hunch
- Doubt about someone's honesty
"He had suspicions about his partner's intentions";
- misgiving, mistrust, distrust
- The state of being suspected
"he tried to shield me from suspicion"
- Being of a suspicious nature
"his suspicion destroyed his marriage";
- suspiciousness
Derived forms: suspicions
Type of: antagonism, belief, distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, enmity, feeling, hostility, impression, incertitude, mistrust, notion, opinion, uncertainty
Encyclopedia: Suspicion