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Implication vs Suggestion - What's the difference?

implication | suggestion |

In uncountable terms the difference between implication and suggestion

is that implication is the state of being implicated while suggestion is the act of suggesting.

In countable terms the difference between implication and suggestion

is that implication is an implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words while suggestion is something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for.

implication

English

Noun

  • (uncountable) The act of implicating.
  • (uncountable) The state of being implicated.
  • (countable) An implying, or that which is implied, but not expressed; an inference, or something which may fairly be understood, though not expressed in words.
  • * 2011 , Lance J. Rips, Lines of Thought: Central Concepts in Cognitive Psychology (page 168)
  • But we can also take a more analytical attitude to these displays, interpreting the movements as no more than approachings, touchings, and departings with no implication that one shape caused the other to move.
  • (countable, logic) The connective in propositional calculus that, when joining two predicates A and B in that order, has the meaning "if A is true, then B is true".
  • Derived terms

    * material implication * strict implication

    suggestion

    Noun

  • (countable) Something suggested (with subsequent adposition being for )
  • I have a small suggestion for fixing this: try lifting the left side up a bit.
    Traffic signs seem to be more of a suggestion than an order.
  • (uncountable) The act of suggesting.
  • Suggestion often works better than explicit demand.
  • (countable, psychology) Something implied, which the mind is liable to take as fact.
  • He's somehow picked up the suggestion that I like peanuts.

    Synonyms

    * (something suggested) proposal * See also

    Derived terms

    * autosuggestion * hypnotic suggestion * power of suggestion * suggestion box