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Accusation vs Suspicion - What's the difference?

accusation | suspicion |

As nouns the difference between accusation and suspicion

is that accusation is the act of accusing while suspicion is the act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.

As a verb suspicion is

(nonstandard|dialect) to suspect; to have suspicions.

accusation

English

Alternative forms

* (obsolete) accusasiowne * (obsolete) accusacion

Noun

(en noun)
  • The act of accusing.
  • *
  • (legal) A formal charge brought against a person in a court of law.
    • [They] set up over his head his accusation - Matthew 27:37
  • An allegation.

    • Synonyms

    * impeachment * crimination * censure * charge

    Anagrams

    * ----

    suspicion

    English

    Alternative forms

    * suspition (obsolete)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
  • The condition of being suspected.
  • Uncertainty, doubt.
  • *
    • In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habituĂ©s, 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 .
  • A trace, or slight indication.
  • * (Adolphus William Ward) (1837-1924)
    • The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion of saturnine or sarcastic humor.
  • The imagining of something without evidence.

    • Derived terms

    * suspicious * suspect * sneaking suspicion

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (nonstandard, dialect) To suspect; to have suspicions.
  • * (Rudyard Kipling)
    • Mulvaney continued— "Whin I was full awake the palanquin was set down in a street, I suspicioned , for I cud hear people passin' an' talkin'. But I knew well I was far from home.
  • * 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.

    References

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