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[ noun ] an impression that something might be the case

Synonyms

hunch intuition

Examples

"he had an intuition that something had gone wrong"

Used in print

(Nathan Rapport, ""I've Been Here before!"...)

Emerson , in his lecture , refers to the `` startling experience which almost every person confesses in daylight , that particular passages of conversation and action have occurred to him in the same order before , whether dreaming or waking , a suspicion that they have been with precisely these persons in precisely this room , and heard precisely this dialogue , at some former hour , they know not when '' .

(Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land....)

Jubal did not hear of Digby 's disappearance when it was announced , and , when he did , while he had a fleeting suspicion , he dismissed it ; if Mike had had_a_finger_in it , he had gotten_away_with it - and what happened to supreme bishops worried Jubal not at_all as_long_as he was n't bothered .

(S. J. Perelman, The Rising Gorge. New York:...)

Our suspicions eventually centered , by the process of elimination , on a grocer 's boy , a thoroughly bad_hat , who delivered cartons to the people overhead .

Related terms

impression heart suspect

2
[ noun ] doubt about someone's honesty

Used in print

(Philip Jos‚ Farmer, The Lovers....)

We have considered several of your professionals because they were lamechians and above suspicion .

Related terms

doubt distrust

3
[ noun ] the state of being suspected

Examples

"he tried to shield me from suspicion"

Related terms

hostility cloud suspect

4
[ noun ] being of a suspicious nature

Synonyms

suspiciousness

Examples

"his suspiciousness destroyed his marriage"

Related terms

distrust

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