suspicions
- 1Plural of suspicion.
Several quiet inconsistencies in the report confirmed her worst suspicions.
He voiced his suspicions about the contractor's inflated invoices.
Note
A plural turns suspicion from a mood into a set of particular doubts. Suspicion is both countable and uncountable: as a mass noun it names a general state of distrust, while the plural counts specific ideas someone holds, as in her worst suspicions or voicing one's suspicions. Some dialects also use suspicion as a verb meaning 'to suspect', so in that speech the word may be doing a verb's work.
suspicions is a form of suspicion
suspicion, noun: The act of believing, often without firm proof, that a person or thing is responsible for something wrong. Full entry
- Forms
- suspicionsuspicions plural
- Spelling
- suspicion → suspicions: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /z/.
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