suggestion
nounUK /səˈd͡ʒɛst.ʃən/ · CA, US /sə(ɡ)ˈd͡ʒɛs.t͡ʃən/
Etymology From Middle English suggestion, from Anglo-Norman suggestioun, sugestiun, from Latin suggestiō, from suggerō (“suggest”, verb), from Latin sub- (“from below, up”) + gerō (“to bring”). Equivalent to suggest + -ion. Related to English up-, cast.
1
Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
- make a suggestion
- I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.
1 more example
- Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.
2
The act of suggesting.
- Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
3
Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
- He’s somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.
4
The act of exercising control over a hypnotised subject by communicating some belief or impulse by means of words or gestures; the idea so suggested.
5
Law Information, insinuation, speculation, as opposed to a sworn testimony and evidence.
- Synonyms
- hint, incitement, proposal
- Derived terms
- autosuggestion, auto-suggestion, countersuggestion, desuggestion, heterosuggestion, hypnotic suggestion, missuggestion, narcosuggestion, nonsuggestion, posthypnotic suggestion, power of suggestion, self-suggestion, serving suggestion, suggestional, suggestion box, suggestionism, suggestionist
- Related terms
- suggest, suggestive