suspicion

Meaning

Noun

1. (countable, uncountable) The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
2. (countable, uncountable) The condition of being suspected.
3. (countable, uncountable) Uncertainty, doubt.
4. (countable, uncountable) A trace, or slight indication.
5. (countable, uncountable) The imagining of something without evidence.

Verb

To suspect; to have suspicions.

Synonyms

doubt

distrust

mistrust

misgiving

apprehension

uncertainty

fear

😨

question

❓

suspect

hunch

skepticism

hesitation

surmise

scepticism

intuition

misgivings

suspiciousness

doubtfulness

jealousy

hint

expectation

glimmer

inkling

scruples

mistrustfulness

peradventure

premonition

presage

presentiment

presumption

probable

qualm

reservation

sense

skeptical

smack

strangeness

suggestion

suspects

suspicious

tendency

thought

💭

alarm

tinge

touch

trace

true

wariness

wonder

incomplete understanding

Translations

soupçon

Verdacht

sospecha

suspicion

Argwohn

sospetto

méfiance

Misstrauen

achterdocht

doute

argwaan

suspeita

Zweifel

wantrouwen

Pronounced as (IPA)

/səˈspɪʃ.ən/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: suspecioun

In summary

From Middle English suspecioun, borrowed from Latin suspīciō, suspīciōnem, from suspicere, from sub- (“up to”) with specere (“to look at”). Perhaps partly through the influence of Old French sospeçon (or rather the Anglo-Norman form suspecioun). Equivalent to suspect + -ion.