Associations to the word «Suspicion»

Wiktionary

SUSPICION, noun. ​The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
SUSPICION, noun. The condition of being suspected.
SUSPICION, noun. Uncertainty, doubt.
SUSPICION, noun. A trace, or slight indication.
SUSPICION, noun. The imagining of something without evidence.
SUSPICION, verb. (nonstandard) (dialect) To suspect; to have suspicions.

Dictionary definition

SUSPICION, noun. An impression that something might be the case; "he had an intuition that something had gone wrong".
SUSPICION, noun. Doubt about someone's honesty.
SUSPICION, noun. The state of being suspected; "he tried to shield me from suspicion".
SUSPICION, noun. Being of a suspicious nature; "his suspiciousness destroyed his marriage".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats