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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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thinking
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /????k??/
- Hyphenation: think?ing
- Rhymes: -??k??
- Rhymes: -??
Etymology 1
From Middle English thinking, thynkynge, thenkyng, equivalent to think +? -ing.
Noun
thinking (usually uncountable, plural thinkings)
- Thought; gerund of think.
Hyponyms
Derived terms
- quick-thinking
- thinking cap
- thinking man
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English thenkinge, þinkynge, þenkynge, þenchinde, from Old English þen?ende, from Proto-Germanic *þankijandz, present participle of *þankijan? (“to think”), equivalent to think +? -ing. Cognate with Dutch denkend (“thinking”), German denkend (“thinking”), Swedish tänkande (“thinking”).
Verb
thinking
- present participle of think
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