suspicion

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A feeling that something is wrong or that someone has done something bad, without clear proof.

   The neighbours watched the empty house with growing suspicion.

2. 2
   noun

   A belief or feeling that something is probably true.

   I had a suspicion that she would be late again.

3. 3
   noun

   A very small amount or slight sign of something.

   There was just a suspicion of a smile on his face.

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.

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