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Deduction vs Suspicion - What's the difference?

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Deduction is a related term of suspicion.


As nouns the difference between deduction and suspicion

is that deduction is deduction (all meanings) 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.

deduction

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • That which is deducted; that which is subtracted or removed
  • A sum that can be removed from tax calculations; something that is written off
    • You might want to donate the old junk and just take the deduction .
  • (logic) A process of reasoning that moves from the general to the specific, in which a conclusion follows necessarily from the premises presented, so that the conclusion cannot be false if the premises are true.
  • A conclusion; that which is deduced, concluded or figured out
    • He arrived at the deduction that the butler didn't do it.
  • The ability or skill to deduce or figure out; the power of reason
    • Through his powers of deduction , he realized that the plan would never work.

    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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