Suggestion

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. The act of suggesting.
  • n. Something suggested: We ordered the shrimp, a suggestion of the waiter.
  • n. The sequential process by which one thought or mental image leads to another.
  • n. A psychological process by which an idea is induced in or adopted by another without argument, command, or coercion.
  • n. An idea or response so induced.
  • n. A hint or trace: just a suggestion of makeup; the first suggestion of trouble ahead.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for)
  • n. The act of suggesting.
  • n. Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The act of suggesting; presentation of an idea.
  • n. That which is suggested; an intimation; an insinuation; a hint; a different proposal or mention; also, formerly, a secret incitement; temptation.
  • n. Charge; complaint; accusation.
  • n. Information without oath; an entry of a material fact or circumstance on the record for the information of the court, at the death or insolvency of a party.
  • n. The act or power of originating or recalling ideas or relations, distinguished as original and relative; -- a term much used by Scottish metaphysicians from Hutcherson to Thomas Brown.
  • n. The control of the mind of an hypnotic subject by ideas in the mind of the hypnotizer.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The act of placing before the mind problematically; also, the idea so produced; the insinuation of an idea by indirect association; hint; intimation; prompting; also, especially, an incitement to an animal, brutal, or diabolical act.
  • n. The action of an idea in bringing another idea to mind, either through the force of association or by virtue of the natural connection of the ideas.
  • n. Specifically, in hypnotism, the insinuation of a belief or impulse into the mind of the subject by any means, as by words or gestures, usually by emphatic declaration; also, the impulse of trust and submission which leads to the effectiveness of such incitement; also, the idea so suggested.
  • n. Indirect or hidden action.
  • n. In law, information without oath.
  • n. Synonyms Intimation, Insinuation, etc. See hint, transitive verb
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association
  • n. persuasion formulated as a suggestion
  • n. an idea that is suggested
  • n. the act of inducing hypnosis
  • n. a just detectable amount
  • n. a proposal offered for acceptance or rejection
  • Hypernym
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    insinuation    hint    allusion    intimation    temptation    charge    complaint    accusation    proposal   
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    hint    idea    thought    expression    notion    aspect    explanation    remark    advice    description