Suspicion vs Perplexity - What's the difference?
suspicion | perplexity | Related terms |
The act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong.
The condition of being suspected.
Uncertainty, doubt.
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A trace, or slight indication.
* (Adolphus William Ward) (1837-1924)
The imagining of something without evidence.
(nonstandard, dialect) To suspect; to have suspicions.
* (Rudyard Kipling)
* 2012 , B. M. Bower, Cow-Country (page 195)
The state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused.
Something that perplexes.
* 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon (Canongate 2006), page 149:
A measurement in information theory: see (Perplexity).
Suspicion is a related term of perplexity.
As nouns the difference between suspicion and perplexity
is that suspicion is the act of suspecting something or someone, especially of something wrong while perplexity is the state or quality of being perplexed; puzzled or confused.As a verb suspicion
is (nonstandard|dialect) to suspect; to have suspicions.suspicion
English
Alternative forms
* suspition (obsolete)Noun
(en noun)- In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, 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 .
- The features are mild but expressive, with just a suspicion of saturnine or sarcastic humor.
Derived terms
* suspicious * suspect * sneaking suspicionVerb
(en verb)- 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.
- "I've been suspicioning here was where they got their information right along," the sheriff commented, and slipped the handcuffs on the landlord.
References
* (EtymOnLine)perplexity
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Noun
(perplexities)- The Emperor, who was by then a focus of unresolvable perplexities , stood providing a strongly contrary appearance.