suspicion

Meanings

Noun

• The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
• The condition of being suspected.
• Uncertainty, doubt.
• A trace, or slight indication.
• The imagining of something without evidence.

Verb

• To suspect; to have suspicions.

Origin

• From Middle English, borrowed from Latin suspicio, from suspicere, from sub- with specere. Perhaps partly through the influence of Old French sospeçon (or rather the Anglo-Norman form suspecioun). Equivalent to suspect + -ion.