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suspense
English
Alternative forms
- suspence (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English suspense, suspence, from Anglo-Norman suspens (as in en suspens) and Old French suspens, from Latin susp?nsus.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s??sp?ns/
- Rhymes: -?ns
Noun
suspense (usually uncountable, plural suspenses)
- The condition of being suspended; cessation for a time.
- the pleasurable emotion of anticipation and excitement regarding the outcome or climax of a book, film etc.
- The unpleasant emotion of anxiety or apprehension in an uncertain situation.
- 1656, John Denham, The Destruction of Troy
- Ten days the prophet in suspense remain'd.
- 1656, John Denham, The Destruction of Troy
- (law) A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.
Derived terms
- suspenseful
Translations
Adjective
suspense (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.
- (obsolete) Expressing, or proceeding from, suspense or doubt.
French
Etymology 1
Nominalisation of the feminine form of suspens.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sys.p??s/
Noun
suspense f (plural suspenses)
- suspense (state of being suspended)
Etymology 2
Borrowed from English suspense, itself from Old French suspense. Doublet of suspens.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sys.p?ns/
Noun
suspense m (plural suspenses)
- suspense (emotion; feeling)
Further reading
- “suspense” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Galician
Etymology
From French suspense, from English suspense.
Noun
suspense m (plural suspenses)
- suspense
- thriller
Italian
Etymology
Borrowed from English suspense.
Noun
suspense f (invariable)
- suspense (all senses)
Latin
Participle
susp?nse
- vocative masculine singular of susp?nsus
References
- suspense in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
- suspense in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
Portuguese
Noun
suspense m (plural suspenses)
- suspense (the excited anticipation of an outcome)
- (fiction) thriller (a suspenseful, sensational genre of fiction)
Spanish
Etymology
From French suspense, from English suspense.
Noun
suspense m (plural suspenses)
- (Spain) suspense
- Synonym: (Latin America) suspenso
- thriller
Derived terms
- novela de suspense (“thriller”) (novel genre)
- película de suspense (“thriller”) (film genre)
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suspicion
English
Alternative forms
- suspition (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English [Term?], borrowed from Latin suspici?, suspici?nem, 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).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /s?.?sp?.??n/
- Rhymes: -???n
Noun
suspicion (countable and uncountable, plural suspicions)
- The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
- The condition of being suspected.
- Uncertainty, doubt.
- In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass. […] Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.
- A trace, or slight indication.
- 1879, Adolphus William Ward, Chaucer
- The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion […] of saturnine or sarcastic humor.
- 1879, Adolphus William Ward, Chaucer
- The imagining of something without evidence.
Derived terms
- suspicious
- suspect
- sneaking suspicion
Translations
Verb
suspicion (third-person singular simple present suspicions, present participle suspicioning, simple past and past participle suspicioned)
- (nonstandard, dialect) To suspect; to have suspicions.
- Mulvaney continued— "Whin I was full awake the palanquin was set down in a street, I suspicioned, for I cud hear people passin' an' talkin'. But I knew well I was far from home. […]
- 2012, B. M. Bower, Cow-Country (page 195)
- "I've been suspicioning here was where they got their information right along," the sheriff commented, and slipped the handcuffs on the landlord.
Trivia
One of three common words ending in -cion, which are coercion, scion, and suspicion.
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “suspicion”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin suspici?, suspici?nem. Confer soupçon, derived from a related formation but not an actual doublet.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /sys.pi.sj??/
Noun
suspicion f (plural suspicions)
- suspicion
Synonyms
- soupçon
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