From Middle English suspecioun, borrowed from Latin suspicio, from suspicere, from sub- ("up to") with specere ("to look at").

• IPA: /səˈspɪʃ.ən/

suspicion

1. The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
2. The condition of being suspected.
3. Uncertainty, doubt.
   • 1892, Walter Besant, chapter III, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC ↗:

     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.

4. A trace, or slight indication.

   a suspicion of a smile

   • 1879, Adolphus William Ward, Chaucer:

     The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion […] of saturnine or sarcastic humor.

5. The imagining of something without evidence.

• inkling

• French: suspicion, soupçon
• German: Verdacht, Argwohn
• Italian: sospetto
• Portuguese: suspeita, suspeição
• Russian: подозре́ние
• Spanish: sospecha, suspicacia

• German: Verdacht
• Russian: подозре́ние

• German: Verdacht, Argwohn

• German: Verdacht

• German: Verdächtigung

suspicion (suspicions, present participle suspicioning; simple past and past participle suspicioned)

1. (dialect) To suspect; to have suspicions.
   • 1876, Mark Twain [pseudonym; Samuel Langhorne Clemens], chapter XXVI, in The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, Hartford, Conn.: The American Publishing Company, →OCLC ↗, page 202 ↗:

     “Well, what’s more dangerous than coming here in the day time!—anybody would suspicion us that saw us.”

   • 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.