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sus⋅pi⋅cion

  [suh-spish-uhn]
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–noun
1. act of suspecting.
2. the state of mind or feeling of one who suspects: Suspicion kept him awake all night long.
3. an instance of suspecting something or someone.
4. state of being suspected: under suspicion; above suspicion.
5. imagination of anything to be the case or to be likely; a vague notion of something.
6. a slight trace, hint, or suggestion: a suspicion of a smile.
–verb (used with object)
7. Nonstandard. to suspect.
Origin:
1250–1300; ME < L suspīciōn- (s. of suspīciō), equiv. to suspīc- (var. s. of suspicere to look from below, suspect ) + -iōn- -ion

Synonyms:
2. doubt, mistrust, misgiving. Suspicion, distrust are terms for a feeling that appearances are not reliable. Suspicion is the positive tendency to doubt the trustworthiness of appearances and therefore to believe that one has detected possibilities of something unreliable, unfavorable, menacing, or the like: to feel suspicion about the honesty of a prominent man. Distrust may be a passive want of trust, faith, or reliance in a person or thing: to feel distrust of one's own ability.
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sus·pi·cion   (sə-spĭsh'ən)   
n.  
  1. The act of suspecting something, especially something wrong, on little evidence or without proof.
  2. The condition of being suspected, especially of wrongdoing.
  3. A state of uncertainty; doubt. See Synonyms at uncertainty.
  4. A minute amount or slight indication; a trace.
tr.v.   sus·pi·cioned, sus·pi·cion·ing, sus·pi·cions Nonstandard
To suspect.

[Middle English, alteration (influenced by Old French suspicion) of suspecioun, from Anglo-Norman, variant of Old French sospeçon, from Latin suspectiō, suspectiōn-, from suspectus, past participle of suspicere, to watch; see suspect.]
sus·pi'cion·al adj.
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