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1. An impression that something might be the case
   "he had a suspicion that something had gone wrong";
   - intuition, hunch
    
2. Doubt about someone's honesty
   - misgiving, mistrust, distrust
    
3. The state of being suspected
   "he tried to shield me from suspicion"
    
4. Being of a suspicious nature
   "his suspicion destroyed his marriage";
   - suspiciousness

Derived forms: suspicions

Type of: antagonism, belief, distrust, distrustfulness, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, enmity, feeling, hostility, impression, incertitude, mistrust, notion, opinion, uncertainty

Encyclopedia: Suspicion