Suspense vs Suspect - What's the difference?
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The condition of being suspended; cessation for a time.
* Alexander Pope
the pleasurable emotion of anticipation and excitement regarding the outcome or climax of a book, film etc.
The unpleasant emotion of anxiety or apprehension in an uncertain situation.
* Denham
(legal) A temporary cessation of one's right; suspension, as when the rent or other profits of land cease by unity of possession of land and rent.
(obsolete) Held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding.
* Milton
(obsolete) Expressing, or proceeding from, suspense or doubt.
* Milton
To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
* Milton
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, title= To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
To believe (someone) to be guilty.
To have suspicion.
(obsolete) To look up to; to respect.
A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.
Viewed with suspicion; suspected.
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(nonstandard) Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.
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As nouns the difference between suspense and suspect
is that suspense is the condition of being suspended; cessation for a time while suspect is a person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.As adjectives the difference between suspense and suspect
is that suspense is held or lifted up; held or prevented from proceeding while suspect is viewed with suspicion; suspected.As a verb suspect is
to imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.suspense
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(wikipedia suspense)Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Noun
(-)- a cool suspense from pleasure and from pain
- Ten days the prophet in suspense remained.
Derived terms
* suspensefulAdjective
(-)- [The great light of day] suspense in heaven.
- Expectation held his look suspense .
suspect
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Verb
(en verb)- to suspect the presence of disease
- From her hand I could suspect no ill.
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- to suspect the truth of a story
- (Addison)
Synonyms
* (imagine or suppose to be true) imagine, suppose, think * (sense) distrust, doubt * (believe to be guilty) accuse, point the finger atNoun
(wikipedia suspect) (en noun)- Round up the usual suspects.'' — ''Casablanca
Adjective
(en adjective)- What I can do or offer is suspect .
- In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature , David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
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- Now I’m suspect of other advice that I read in your pages.