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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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hypothesis
English
Etymology
Recorded since 1596, from Middle French hypothese, from Late Latin hypothesis, from Ancient Greek ???????? (hupóthesis, “base, basis of an argument, supposition”, literally “a placing under”), itself from ????????? (hupotíth?mi, “I set before, suggest”), from ??? (hupó, “below”) + ?????? (títh?mi, “I put, place”).
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /ha??p???s?s/, /h??p???s?s/, /h??p???s?s/, /-?s?s/, /-?s?s/
- (US) IPA(key): /ha??p??.??.s?s/
Noun
hypothesis (plural hypotheses)
- (sciences) Used loosely, a tentative conjecture explaining an observation, phenomenon or scientific problem that can be tested by further observation, investigation and/or experimentation. As a scientific term of art, see the attached quotation. Compare to theory, and quotation given there.
- 2005, Ronald H. Pine, http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/intelligent_design_or_no_model_creationism, 15 October 2005:
- Far too many of us have been taught in school that a scientist, in the course of trying to figure something out, will first come up with a "hypothesis" (a guess or surmise—not necessarily even an "educated" guess). ... [But t]he word "hypothesis" should be used, in science, exclusively for a reasoned, sensible, knowledge-informed explanation for why some phenomenon exists or occurs. An hypothesis can be as yet untested; can have already been tested; may have been falsified; may have not yet been falsified, although tested; or may have been tested in a myriad of ways countless times without being falsified; and it may come to be universally accepted by the scientific community. An understanding of the word "hypothesis," as used in science, requires a grasp of the principles underlying Occam's Razor and Karl Popper's thought in regard to "falsifiability"—including the notion that any respectable scientific hypothesis must, in principle, be "capable of" being proven wrong (if it should, in fact, just happen to be wrong), but none can ever be proved to be true. One aspect of a proper understanding of the word "hypothesis," as used in science, is that only a vanishingly small percentage of hypotheses could ever potentially become a theory.
- 2005, Ronald H. Pine, http://www.csicop.org/specialarticles/show/intelligent_design_or_no_model_creationism, 15 October 2005:
- (general) An assumption taken to be true for the purpose of argument or investigation.
- (grammar) The antecedent of a conditional statement.
Synonyms
- supposition
- theory
- thesis
- educated guess
- guess
- See also Thesaurus:supposition
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Latin
Etymology
Borrowed from Ancient Greek ???????? (hupóthesis, “hypothesis”, noun).
Pronunciation
- (Classical) IPA(key): /hy?po.t?e.sis/, [h??p?t???s??s?]
- (Ecclesiastical) IPA(key): /i?po.te.sis/, [i?p??t??s?is]
Noun
hypothesis f (genitive hypothesis or hypothese?s or hypothesios); third declension
- hypothesis
Declension
Third-declension noun (Greek-type, i-stem, i-stem).
1Found sometimes in Medieval and New Latin.
- There is also genitive plural hypothese?n.
- The genitive singular is also spelled hypothese?s and the genitive plural hypothese?n.
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